There have been successful VLIWs in eg GPUs and mobile basebands. Ie in apps that don't have the software inertia of needing to run existing CPU code. Parallel

There have been successful VLIWs in eg GPUs and mobile basebands. Ie in apps that don't have the software inertia of needing to run existing CPU code. Parallel unfriendly C/C++ semantics is the killer.