Contemporary Competitors
Although the Intel i860 also used a VLIW (or properly LIW in both cases, as two is not "very" long), extracting performance from the i860 proved notoriously difficult, and in practice the PRISM was much faster.
Note that Digital Equipment Corporation also engineered a RISC chip, the DEC PRISM, during the same era, but that project was canceled in 1987, and never entered production.
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