I was enthralled watching those talks, and the concept of storing high-level bytecode for executables that gets targeted to the specific machine at runtime is a

I was enthralled watching those talks, and the concept of storing high-level bytecode for executables that gets targeted to the specific machine at runtime is a concept I've always found cool (I can install an ancient AS/400 app on our IBM i that was originally built on IBM's ancient 48-bit CPU the old systems had on our shiny POWER7 box as long as they didn't use any private API's). However, we'll see what happens if and when they produce real silicon whether the concept will be another Itanic, even AMD moved away from VLIW designs for their GPU's for performance reasons ~4 years(though, to be fair, they don't exactly have the $$$ to pay for tremendous amounts of driver developers to optimize their code generation anymore).