bottleneck

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Demand for server CPUs is outpacing supply, and shortages there are becoming a bottleneck to AI development, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said in a note earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The bottleneck has nearly halted all petroleum shipments through the narrow waterway.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

“This creates a two-lane highway for large vessels, one lane in and one out. The bottleneck here could last a few weeks at the very least,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The new Vera Rubin and Groq combined servers will have 500 times as much high bandwidth memory as the Hopper generation, helping solve the memory bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Now flying by some magical means, Aech’s avatar swooped down, passed over the bottleneck of gunters clustered at the castle entrance, and disappeared through the open double doors.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline