It’s barrel processing. A modern example is Intel’s Larrabee; it had 32 4-wide barrel processors, each of which could retire one 16-wide vector instruction, one

It’s barrel processing. A modern example is Intel’s Larrabee; it had 32 4-wide barrel processors, each of which could retire one 16-wide vector instruction, one load or store (fused) instruction, and 0-or-more scalar instructions per cycle.