(Image credit: Future) After nearly a decade, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, or SPEC, is releasing a new version of its widely-published SPEC CPU benchmark. SPEC CPU 2026, as you probably expect, modernizes the workloads included in the suite and adds even more benchmarks , more than doubling the codebase of SPEC CPU 2017. Critically, however, the suite was also designed with portability in mind, and can run on everything from a Raspberry Pi and a Windows-on-ARM laptop up to the fleets of servers the benchmark is designed for. Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU For enthusiasts, the two SPEC benchmarks that are thrown around a lot are SPECviewperf for graphics performance and SPEC Workstation, the latter of which we run in our CPU reviews. SPEC CPU is focused on the CPU, but it’s a suite targeted toward servers more than the best CPUs for gaming . The updated suite includes 52 tests, nine more than what was included in SPEC CPU 2017, with more than twice as many lines of code.…