Maybe it wouldn't be possible to have several processes working in parallel, but instead a single process with 5 cores available for threads? Consider the PS3 a

Maybe it wouldn't be possible to have several processes working in parallel, but instead a single process with 5 cores available for threads? Consider the PS3 arch for instance: it had 7 cores, 1 for management and the rest for computing. Could it be the way Intel envision its future lines of products?