You see innovation in this space a lot in research. For example, Dalorex [1] or Azul [2] for operations on sparse matrices. Currently a more general version of Azul is being developed at MIT with support for arbitrary matrix/graph algorithms with reconfigurable logic.
It looks pretty ambitious on release from what I've seen youtubers playing. Then again, they only played the first 100 years. Who knows what late game content will be like (that said, people don't usually play that long).
[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10071089 [2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10764548