Mickey: VLIW: Will this ISA style ever get its time in the sun?

With Intel Itanium getting its last shipment, I've taken some time to reflect upon the VLIW methodology. How did Itanium go so wrong? The embedded world has plenty of DSPs (even those inside of your cell phone right now) that perform all kinds of useful calculations in the VLIW style and yet... VLIW never really gained mainstream acceptance outside of AMD Terrascale. There's all sorts of theories and hypotheticals why this happened: the mainstream is that Intel bet too much upon "magic...

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