Yeah - the most common area is DSP chips and similar, where you require really predictable performance, and have tight arithmetical loops with a good source of

Yeah - the most common area is DSP chips and similar, where you require really predictable performance, and have tight arithmetical loops with a good source of parallelism (also a field where it isn't a problem if you have to write a new compiler for your chip). There are some consumer VLIW chips bumming around; I think the Nexus 9 has a VLIW chip - but it is essentially a hardware JIT compiler, translating ARM into its internal instruction set for hot paths.