in short supply

Idioms  

1. Less than is needed, lacking. For example, Skilled operators were in short supply, or The hotels are all full, and beds are in short supply. [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Just as Google discovered in the 2010s, Nvidia GPUs remain expensive and in short supply compared with ravenous demand, and no one wants to be reliant on one vendor for AI’s most important infrastructure.

From Barron's

A CMO role in sports can offer executives a more meaningful job than the corporate hamster wheel—but glamour and predictability can be in short supply.

From The Wall Street Journal

The partnership also highlights how AI upstarts like Anthropic are diversifying to ensure they have as much cloud capacity and compute power at a time when both are in short supply.

From MarketWatch

Any key component of an AI supercomputer that is in short supply will determine how much AI infrastructure can actually be built.

From The Wall Street Journal

“These commodities are already in short supply given unexpectedly strong compute demand, and this pace of growth would in our view only further stress the ability of suppliers to meet industry requirements, yielding an even more prolonged period of favorable fundamentals,” Bryson said.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• deficient
• limited
• rare
• scant
• scanty
• sparse
• sporadic