The hybrid seemed like one of the best designs. Probably why AMD started copying it with their semi-custom business followed by Intel. But those are still full-on x86 processors with all kinds of circuits you probably don't need plus maybe some backdoors for AMT, etc. Cavium's design is much more interesting and maybe safer. I've mainly encouraged people to clone it with RISC-V cores rather than straight-up buy them. ;)
The newer ones are pretty impressive in performance and accelerators, though:
After considering it all I went with the E3-1230v5. Near 6700k multicore performance, near 6700k single thread performance, max 80 watt TDP, and idles much lower. I also get a M.2 slot which allows pretty amazing performance (well above SATA) and a tiny footprint (gum stick or so).
I don't buy systems often though, the machine it's replacing is a quad core 3.0 GHz machines (Q6600) with 8GB ram from 2007. So I don't mind spending a bit more if it's going to last. Hopefully with 32GB ram this new machine will last quite a while.