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Old, dead-end technology is selected.
Selecting old technology can render a product either difficult to support, outmoded, ineffective or non-competitive.
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What to do about it!
Some designers propagate old technology in their designs because that's what they know. Old technology is declared as 'old' mainly because it is either not cost-effective, it lacks contemporary features and capabilities, it's not readily available or is not supported. Keeping up-to-date is important, especially in the high-tech field.
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Technology is not cost-effective.
Selecting expensive technology over less costly, but adequate, technology can drive up cost-of-manufacture (COM), implementation and support costs, thus lessening product competitiveness.
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What to do about it!
For example, using a 2.4MHz Pentium IV processor for an embedded controller simply because the Pentium is what the programmer knows is not necessarily good. The cost of the part is relatively high and the programming support is equally stout. The technology needs to fit the product requirements and cost constraints, not the whims of the developers.
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