– Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is a specification for power management.

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface: An industry-standard specification (co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba) for operating-system-directed power management for laptop, desktop, and server computers. A replacement for APM.

Internet Glossary Short for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a power management specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI, which will be part of the next version of Windows, enables the operating system to control the amount of power given to each device attached to the computer. With ACPI, the operating system can t [..]

Short for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a power management specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI, which will be part of the next version of Windows, enables the [..]

The acronym for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. It is an open industry specification co-developed by HP (Compaq), Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba, the elite "who's who" in the computer industry power players. It establishes the foundational industry standard interfaces for operating system (OS) directed configurati [..]

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. An industry standard for power management of computers. This configuration is controlled through the bios and / or software settings.

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, an industry specification for BIOS and hardware extensions to configure PC hardware and perform power management. Windows 2000 and higher as well as Linux 2 [..]

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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for device configuration and power management by the operating system.

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. A power management specification that replaces APM

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<computer hardware, standard> (ACPI) An open industry standard developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba for configuration and power management. The key element of the standard is power management with two important improvements. First, it puts the OS in control of power management. In the currently existing APM model most of the power manag [..]