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• Embedded legacy obsolescence: Obscuring the truth and the bottom line

  

  Starting in the late 1980s, the embedded industry started to see a change in electronic product life cycles. Before that time, computing technology was primarily commercial and capital equipment had long introduction phases. Today, however, consumer demand for electronic products drives component manufacturers toward a quick-to-market life cycle. Balancing new product introduction and legacy product [...]

  Tania Scroggie, GDCA and Siku Thompson, GDCA