EPA launches energy spec during Comdex
EPA launches energy spec during Comdex
- By T.R. Temin
- Nov 16, 2001
The Environmental Protection Agency and Intel Corp. used last week's Comdex show in Las Vegas to kick off the IAPC program. "Instantly available PC" is a specification under which PCs consume 15 watts of power while on standby, yet are able to receive communications and reawaken in the state they were in at power-down.
Andrew Fanara, product development manager for EPA's Energy Star program, said that IAPC would enable computer vendors to meet new, lower-power consumption rules the program would impose on agencies.
But, he said, Energy Star won't make IAPC mandatory. Current Energy Star-compliant PCs use about 50 watts while on standby. Steve Whalley of Intel's Corporate Technology Group showed four companies' machines already meeting the IAPC spec: a Compaq EVO D500, Dell Dimension 4300 and OptiPlex GR240, Hewlett-Packard ePC Vectra v1800 and IBM NetVista X series.