Java was at one point going to have a bunch of CPUs[1] built around the JVM bytecode, that would have allowed J2EE and such to run on the bare metal hardware, but they largely didn't go anywhere.

The most successful attempts that i'm aware of are Jazelle[2] and Java-card[3] plans to augment the software solutions

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card