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It gets better. Both the Itanium and the Transmeta designs were said to be inspired by VLIW designs built in Russia by a company called Elbrus. Intel did a deal with Elbrus in mid 2004 then went on to buy the company in August 2004. The exact nature of the deal is unclear, however, as another company continued and taped out the E2K processor earlier this year.

Most interestingly though is the E2K compiler technology which allows it to run X86 software. This is exactly the sort of technology Intel need and since last year they have had access to it and employ many of it’s designers.

Out of order hardware will go with it as they are huge, consumes masses of power and in VLIW designs are completely unnecessary. The branch predictors may also go on a diet or even get removed completely as the Elbrus compiler can handle even complex branches.