[atq2119]

VLIW means Very Large Instruction Word. It is a property of the instruction set, not of the processor that implements it.

You could have a VLIW ISA that is implemented by a processor that "unrolls" each instruction word and mostly executes the constituent instructions serially.

[tliltocatl]

Also you can have out-of-order VLIW. Later Itaniums were like that, because turns VLIW doesn't help much with random memory access latency.