Another forgotten VLIW processor of the 1990s: Sun MAJC is a VLIW architecture developed by Sun for media and signal processing. Sun produced one MAJC processor in 1999, MAJC-5200, a “high performance general purpose microprocessor” for multimedia and Java computing. MAJC is a scalable architecture that exploited multiple forms of parallelism, a hot topic of 1990s microarchitecture. MAJC was multiprocessing capable with “vertical micro-threading” and very long instruction word (VLIW) ...
