Check Xeon Phi (not VLIW though), which executes unmodified amd64 instructions on many cores. However it never becomes a mainstream product and Intel recently k

Check Xeon Phi (not VLIW though), which executes unmodified amd64 instructions on many cores. However it never becomes a mainstream product and Intel recently killed it. There are many reasons behind its sunset - tooling, programming difficulty to reach max throughput, perf/cost ratio, ... Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606037