This is commonly referred to as a bottleneck, and one of the most common items that can cause it is an underpowered CPU. The term bottleneck is derived from the physical object it references.

In other words, half of the CPUs AMD is selling today are still made for the old AM4 socket. And, of course, the last family ...

the CPU market researcher said. He noted that this slower ramp was the result of what Intel recently said was a bottleneck in its chip packaging capacity. When it came to revenue share for mobile ...