SPEC Notes
Below, ordered by time with the most recent items first, are listings of SPEC’s old home page announcements.
Announcements by year: 2026 ▪ 2025 ▪ 2024 ▪ 2023 ▪ 2022 ▪ 2021 ▪ 2020 and earlier ▪
Archived SPEC News Items December 10, 2021: The IEEE Micro Special Issue on the Microprocessor at 50 includes an article by SPEC's John Henning, "How Many VAXes Fit in the Palms of Your Hands?" The article, and a companion video, use the original SPECmark benchmark to show relative performance on a modern system vs. a system from the 1970s.
December 9, 2021: The SPECgpc® project group has released the SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.