diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c5aadcbc8d71..f363c608cb8c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -56,6 +56,3 @@
 [submodule "third_party/mlir-hlo"]
 	path = third_party/mlir-hlo
 	url = https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir-hlo.git
-[submodule "third_party/wasm-micro-runtime"]
-	path = third_party/wasm-micro-runtime
-	url = https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 752b05f4004f..e3d7b27565f6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -385,7 +385,6 @@ add_subdirectory(build_tools/third_party/half EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(build_tools/third_party/pffft EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(build_tools/third_party/renderdoc_api EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(build_tools/third_party/vulkan_memory_allocator EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-add_subdirectory(build_tools/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
 add_subdirectory(third_party/cpuinfo EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(third_party/googletest EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
diff --git a/SUBMODULE_VERSIONS.txt b/SUBMODULE_VERSIONS.txt
index 561f7c982c43..fd2c825ca291 100644
--- a/SUBMODULE_VERSIONS.txt
+++ b/SUBMODULE_VERSIONS.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,3 @@ f8bf11a0253a32375c32cad92c841237b96696c0 third_party/spirv_headers
 e35d02186d00eff26ec6c698331a0767a28a51b0 third_party/tracy
 9bd3f561bcee3f01d22912de10bb07ce4e23d378 third_party/vulkan_headers
 3528e2aed3e8808f33e1e7d63eeb1560456a605a third_party/vulkan_memory_allocator
-54e82ec439552018d0f26c60b0fd6cc9e36b42a8 third_party/wasm-micro-runtime
diff --git a/build_tools/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime/CMakeLists.txt b/build_tools/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 21a2c7f5b245..000000000000
--- a/build_tools/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# This file modeled after the instructions at
-# https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/blob/main/doc/build_wamr.md
-
-set(WAMR_SOURCE_DIR "${IREE_SOURCE_DIR}/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime")
-
-# Runtime build target -> platform in wasm-micro-runtime/core/shared/platform/
-if(ANDROID)
-  set(WAMR_BUILD_PLATFORM "android")
-elseif(APPLE)
-  set(WAMR_BUILD_PLATFORM "darwin")
-elseif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "Linux")
-  set(WAMR_BUILD_PLATFORM "linux")
-elseif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "Windows")
-  set(WAMR_BUILD_PLATFORM "windows")
-  # Enable MASM (Microsoft Macro Assembler) for compiling .asm files.
-  enable_language(ASM_MASM)
-endif()
-
-# Pick the features we want. Most default to disabled.
-set(WAMR_BUILD_INTERP 1)
-
-include(${WAMR_SOURCE_DIR}/build-scripts/runtime_lib.cmake)
-
-# WAMR unconditionally adds a global compiler flag for 64 bit targets, which
-# is not handled or needed by MSVC.
-# TODO(scotttodd): Omit the flag upstream rather than work around it here.
-if(MSVC)
-  string(REGEX REPLACE " -fPIC" "" CMAKE_C_FLAGS ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS})
-endif()
-
-set(_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME "wasm_micro_runtime_vmlib")
-add_library(${_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME} STATIC "")
-target_sources(${_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME}
-  PRIVATE
-    ${WAMR_RUNTIME_LIB_SOURCE})
-target_include_directories(${_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME} SYSTEM
-  PUBLIC
-    "$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${WAMR_SOURCE_DIR}/core/iwasm/include/>")
-
-# Suppress all warnings for this third party code.
-if(MSVC)
-  target_compile_options(${_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME} PRIVATE "/W0")
-else()
-  target_compile_options(${_WAMR_LIBRARY_NAME} PRIVATE "-w")
-endif()
diff --git a/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime b/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime
deleted file mode 160000
index 54e82ec43955..000000000000
--- a/third_party/wasm-micro-runtime
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 54e82ec439552018d0f26c60b0fd6cc9e36b42a8