BAPCo consortium
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BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.
BAPCo's current membership includes, ARCintuition, Atheros Communications, CNET, Compal Electronics, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, SAMSUNG, SanDisk, Seagate, Sony, Toshiba, VNU Business Publications Limited (UK), ZDNet, and Ziff Davis.
On June 21, 2011 AMD announced it had resigned from the BAPCo organization after failing to endorse the SYSmark 2012 Benchmark.[1] Nvidia and VIA quit as well.[2]
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- ^ "AMD Will Not Endorse SYSmark 2012 Benchmark". AMD. http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-will-not-endorse-2011june21.aspx. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
- ^ "Nvidia, AMD, and VIA quit BAPCO over SYSmark 2012". SemiAccurate. http://semiaccurate.com/2011/06/20/nvidia-amd-and-via-quit-bapco-over-sysmark-2012/. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
