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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>infant mortality</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="index-of-X.html" title="index of X"/><link rel="next" href="infinite.html" title="infinite"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">infant mortality</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index-of-X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infinite.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="infant-mortality"/><dt xmlns="" id="infant-mortality"><b>infant mortality</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at
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large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden
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hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first
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use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical
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wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has
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accumulated for the machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip
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and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such
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failures are often referred to as <span class="firstterm">infant
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mortality</span> problems (or, occasionally, as <span class="firstterm">sudden infant death syndrome</span>). See
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<a href="../B/bathtub-curve.html"><i class="glossterm">bathtub curve</i></a>,
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