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bottleneck

[bot-l-nek] / ˈbɒt lˌnɛk /


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“Nvidia GPUs are much less of a bottleneck than CPUs, advanced packaging and memory, which isn’t all a bad thing,” Luria wrote.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Market volatility is creating a golden opportunity for new private-equity deals—but not for untangling a global bottleneck of almost 33,000 portfolio companies waiting to be sold, industry executives say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 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

Genetic studies suggest modern humans spread into different parts of the world roughly 100,000 years ago and later experienced what scientists call a genetic bottleneck.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

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

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon




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