latency
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The team found that the processor could also become more capable by increasing the physical depth of its passive optical decoder without substantially increasing energy use or inference latency.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The location of these large, windowless buildings filled with beeping servers and cables also became important to latency – the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“You don’t always have to send those routine tasks to the bigger model, but the router will continuously balance quality, latency, and cost,” Briski said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Compared to AMD’s fifth-generation Turin CPUs, Nvidia said Vera delivers up to 1.9 times faster agentic performance and six times better latency.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The controllers monitored everything and were ready to help in any way they could, but the communication latency between Hermes and Earth rendered them powerless to do anything but watch.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
“We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” AWS said on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
“As technologies and networks advance, with better bandwidth and lower latencies, mobile devices will be able to download even higher-quality content,” said Panayiotis Gabrielides, a senior official at the telecom company involved in the project.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
"There are plenty of three- and four-millisecond latencies already out there in everyday trading. It’s laughable."
From The Verge ● Jun. 17, 2016
In low earth orbit, with relatively low latencies, telerobotic systems can accomplish a great deal through direct manipulation.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2015
Now I am well assured that if we could study not only the patencies but also the latencies of individuals of both sexes, we should find that they vary equally.
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby
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