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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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Glinting investment opportunities abound, private-equity firms say—but the industry also faces an exit bottleneck of over $3 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Memory chips are in high demand, making them a bottleneck in the booming market for artificial-intelligence data centers.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

For systems made of many entangled photons, that creates a serious bottleneck.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

It’s a bottleneck in the sense that AI increasingly requires data to move at far higher speeds with lower latency, driving a supply shortage for the companies that make these connectivity products.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Bombarding the waste uranium with neutrons would allow the United States to “break the bottleneck of this raw material problem,” he promised.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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