I never used TLC with a large model, but I bet making the tool faster would make it more useful to lots of people.
I wonder what the speedup would be if the code targeted a GPU?
But I wonder if the logic of model checking is actually amenable to vectorization. I suspect not really, even for something basic like checking safety properties where you could try to shard the state space across cores. There is still likely to be some synchronization that is needed that eliminates the benefits. A cheaper way to test it would be to look to vectorize on the CPU first.
For a pure hardware based speedup, if there is effort to transcompile TLA+ specs to C++, there could then be a further step to transcompile that to say Verilog and try to run the model checking on an FPGA. That _might_ pay off.