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A modern history of VLIW should also include mention the Hexagon FSP architecture used by Qualcomm in its SoCs.

With a smaller target market it's probably more sustainable than Itanium was.

Disclaimer: Qualcomm employee working on hexagon toolchain.

Also, GPU VLIW architectures (including GCN and it's successors CDNA and RDNA) and yes, various coprocessors.

Once heard comparison that Itanium was pretty good for a fast DSP, but too expensive XD

GCN is not VLIW (follows that neither is RDNA and derivatives). You're thinking of TeraScale, the generation before GCN, which was VLIW.

My bad - I misread a doc recently which implied otherwise, albeit that GCN used shorter ones. Just checked AMD docs straight and it was indeed normal scalar instructions.

AIE and AIE-ML from AMD do use VLIW btw

Sophie Wilson also mentions Firepath in several of her YouTube lectures.

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