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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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The real bottleneck remains getting enough memory chips to deliver all those servers, says Dell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

And as SpaceX allocates satellite-launch services for its own use, a launch bottleneck is gripping the wider industry and could hamper AST SpaceMobile’s ability to send satellites into space.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

But we can use the physical bottleneck of energy to impose a clear and simple restraint on an industry that has otherwise proved elusive to regulate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The flame seared the tip of the oiled cloth and sizzled toward the bottleneck.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

Port congestion in the West and bottlenecks at the Panama Canal are also pushing rates higher, Choi says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Limited glass-preform capacity, raw-material bottlenecks and constrained ex-China capacity have created a supply deficit, pushing hyperscalers into multiyear agreements and opening opportunities for STL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It sits directly on one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks: skilled labor.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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