I think you're being too dismissive here. First of all, VLIW has been hugely successful in DSP cores. Your phone probably has a few in it. Second, Itanium wa

I think you're being too dismissive here. First of all, VLIW has been hugely successful in DSP cores. Your phone probably has a few in it. Second, Itanium wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. And the Transmeta/NVidia lineage have also been not terrible. There isn't any reason to choose them over a conventional OoO processor absent security concerns but if they really do help with security concerns then these approaches bear careful investigation.