I think RISC-V is showing that RISC ISAs can still compete in this space: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318v1.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318v1.pdf. RISC-V

I think RISC-V is showing that RISC ISAs can still compete in this space: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318v1.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318v1.pdf. RISC-V has extensibility of the ISA as a core feature, allowing for special-purpose accelerators and coprocessors as needed.