Hey thanks for this response. It's broadly consistent with my understanding, though obviously better articulated, and you did have some points I hadn't heard b

Hey thanks for this response. It's broadly consistent with my understanding, though obviously better articulated, and you did have some points I hadn't heard before. Last year's HotChips (or maybe even the year before) had a talk from a group that was working on a new design which is arguably VLIW (or has some elements of VLIW) and recently-ish they've been back in the news for having actual silicon in test. It's my hope that they are successful in their efforts, at least in some technical way. Lastly somewhere in the back of my head is the vague idea that Apple doesn't actually use ARM cores either but instead uses a continuation the technology they bought with PA Semi only with an "ARM front end". I've long forgotten where I heard that from though.