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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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A critical bottleneck in memory chips has handed Micron and other names unprecedented pricing power.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026

Building additional pipelines may shift the location of the bottleneck, but it does nothing to eliminate the underlying vulnerability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

The world is moving to “physical ASI,” he said, where the bottleneck is no longer model design but the chips, power and data‑center capacity needed to operate advanced systems at scale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

The deal gives Cursor access to SpaceX’s Colossus data centers, removing a bottleneck preventing the startup from quickly improving its models.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

The effects of the bottleneck were described in 1982, when Allyn Stearman of the University of Central Florida became the first anthropologist to visit the Siriono since Holmberg.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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