meaning of infant mortality

1. infant mortality It is common lore among hackers and in the electronics industry at large that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machines time since first use that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile. Up to half of all chip and wire failures happen within a new systems first few weeks; such failures are often referred to as "infant mortality" problems or, occasionally, as "sudden infant death syndrome". See bathtub curve, burn-in period. [Jargon File]
2. the death rate during the first year of life

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