Conversely, there have also been processors in which two cores share certain computing units, such as the AMD Bulldozer architecture with “Shared FPU”<\/a>.<\/p>\n SDC details<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Software-defined supercores: two cores share the workload<\/p>\n \n (Image:\u00a0Intel, US-Patentanmeldung US20250217157A1, Google)\n <\/p>\n In patent application US20250217157A1<\/a>, Intel explains the functionality of a software-defined supercore in more detail. For example, two cores could work together as an SDC to process a single thread faster. Flow control instructions in the code provide information on which code sections should be processed in parallel if possible.<\/p>\n According to the patent application, relatively little additional hardware is required in each core for this cooperation to work efficiently.<\/p>\n Solution to the P-core problem?<\/p>\n If you compare current x86 processors from AMD and Intel, you will notice that Intel’s performance (P) cores take up a relatively large amount of space. Intel’s efficiency cores (E-cores) are much more compact, with an area ratio of almost four to one. With single-threading, however, the E-cores are significantly weaker than the P-cores. Dynamically combinable, slimmer cores could provide a remedy.<\/p>\n AMD has so far not used E-cores in this sense, but more compact and efficient Zen cores with the same range of functions (Zen 5\/5c).<\/p>\n AMD and Intel are planning several innovations to the x86 architecture. They joined forces in fall 2024 to form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG)<\/a>. According to a post by AMD Vice President Robert Hormuth on LinkedIn, the x86 partners have agreed on FRED, AVX10 and APX, among other things.<\/p>\n Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED)<\/a> is an updated concept for processing interrupts. AVX10 and the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)<\/a> reorganize the AVX versions and bring, among other things, twice as many registers. Intel’s Nova Lake<\/a>, which is expected to arrive at the end of 2026 as the Core Ultra 400 for LGA1954 boards, could be the first Intel CPU with APX and AVX10.2.<\/p>\n (ciw<\/a>)<\/p>\n \n Don’t miss any news \u2013 follow us on \n This article was originally published in<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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