I haven’t read the relevant papers, but I imagine they were targeting something that presented more like a fine-grained MIMD and less like VLIW. That is, many t

I haven’t read the relevant papers, but I imagine they were targeting something that presented more like a fine-grained MIMD and less like VLIW. That is, many tiny cores with independent execution pipelines, not a few large cores with very wide paths of functional units.