You don't have that fancy stuff in really low cost, embedded systems, or as part of the control path in a large, complex FPGA or ASIC design. Look at ARM Cortex

You don't have that fancy stuff in really low cost, embedded systems, or as part of the control path in a large, complex FPGA or ASIC design. Look at ARM Cortex M0+, M3, M4 or numerous RISC-V cores for microcontroller applications. You get the core you need that meets the processing budget with as little cost, area/resources needed and with as little power consumption. That was true then and it is just as true today.