I would disagree. Intel adds more and more special instructions for niche uses (crypto,HPC,virtualization,etc) for the sake of efficiency. This becomes increasi

I would disagree. Intel adds more and more special instructions for niche uses (crypto,HPC,virtualization,etc) for the sake of efficiency. This becomes increasingly necessary for performance improvements, because frequency scaling hit its boundary for now and manycore is about to (see Dark Silicon).