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Re:The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up by CHY872 on Monday July 27, 2015 @01:07PM (#9956494)
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.

Re:The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up by CUViper on Monday July 27, 2015 @01:45PM (#9956761)
Yeah, that's Denver in the Nexus 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver