The interesting work here is definitely on the measurement/acquisition side. Ultimately if it's an unprotected AES you're going to be able to exploit some leakage given enough measurements.

This is pretty consistent with recent results that attack more 'exotic' targets; the post-acquisition phase uses the same old techniques that were 'discovered' in the very early 2000's. It seems to be that once you've found the things you need to do to get clean measurements you can just use the straightforward linear-dependency related stuff or do a simple profiled attack if that suits.