Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's "super core" - Intel's latest patent revives ancient 'anti-hyperthreading' CPU technique in an attempt to boost processor performance, but will it be enough?

Intel Xeon 6.

• Intel merges physical CPU cores into a single virtual super core design
• Fused cores execute instructions in parallel before reordering to improve performance
• The approach targets higher single-thread efficiency without expanding core size

Intel has filed a patent for what it calls Software Defined Super Cores, a technology that merges two or more physical CPU cores into a single virtual “super core.”