2) Yes Transmeta was VLIW internally, but I see that as an implementation-detail over other forms of superscalar; either way you have a linear stream of instructions generated by the compiler, with hardware turning that into parallel execution by the CPU at runtime. Calling that "VLIW" is about as interesting as calling a modern x86 "RISC."
2) Yes Transmeta was VLIW internally, but I see that as an implementation-detail over other forms of superscalar; either way you have a linear stream of instructions generated by the compiler, with hardware turning that into parallel execution by the CPU at runtime. Calling that "VLIW" is about as interesting as calling a modern x86 "RISC."