Sun's propose-built, native Java processor (picoJava https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava — forgive the direct link

Sun's propose-built, native Java processor (picoJava https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava — forgive the direct link because I am on a mobile platform) absolutely stank and they clearly lacked the incentive to invest more resources into producing a special-purpose part when general-purpose devices (traditional CPUs) would have always had the return-on-investment advantage.