>Instead of starting from a sequential design, we’re building our processor to have thousands of cores operating in parallel.

Sounds like tweaking a gpu so it can be used like a cpu. There are some proof of concepts running unix on a gpu, along with some toy projects like gameboy emulators. I think an Nvidia engineer even tried to see if they could get linux working which helps explore what is deficient. And there is this https://github.com/robertcprice/nCPU .