[creato]

VLIW is still in use in multiple DSP products on the market today, and they are good successful products in their niche.

They work very well if your code can be written as a loop without branches (or very limited branches) in the body, and a lot of instruction level parallelism in the body.

Unfortunately for Intel, most code doesn't look like that. But for most workloads that happen to also be a good case for SIMD, it is (can be) great.