Is ASIC audio decoding really common these days? I assumed it would be handled on "general purpose" DSPs most of the time, not hardwired ASICs. Audio decoding

Is ASIC audio decoding really common these days? I assumed it would be handled on "general purpose" DSPs most of the time, not hardwired ASICs. Audio decoding is really not a challenging task nowadays in my experience, when your average "embedded" processor runs at hundreds of MHz. There's still power consumption to factor in but that's never really been a limiting factor for me in the past decade at least. Maybe I've just been spoiled with powerful SoCs.