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		buildbot 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Real PowerBook: The Macintosh Application Enviro... Yes, as other noted AMD used VLIW for terscale in the 2000-6000 series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraScale_(microarchitecture) They are used in a lot of DSP chips too, where you (hopefully) have very simple branching if any and nice data access patterns.

Sesse__ 7 months ago [–]

And typically just fast RAM everywhere instead of caches, so you don't have cache misses. (The flip side is that you typically have very _little_ RAM.)

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