ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, which is the alternative to APM. It is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix and Toshiba. The current revision of the specification is 3.0. The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open industry standard first released in December 1996 developed by HP, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix and Toshiba that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard and device configuration and power management. ... APM can also stand for Automatic People Mover. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (founded 1968) is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004. ... The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ... Tōshiba (東芝) is a high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ...

According to the official specification website: ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers.

ACPI evolves the existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and so on) into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. Power management is a feature of some electrical appliances, especially copiers and computer peripherials, such as a monitor or printer that turns off the power or switches the system to a low-power state after a period of inactivity. ... BIOS, in computing, stands for basic input/output system. ... APM can also stand for Automatic People Mover. ... API redirects here. ...

The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together.

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