This is not about power saving, it is dynamically, on the granularity of individual instructions, balancing the thermal dissipation available across cores. When

This is not about power saving, it is dynamically, on the granularity of individual instructions, balancing the thermal dissipation available across cores. When some cores are relatively idle (e.g. waiting on cache fill) it uses the available amps to run other cores at "turbo boost" frequencies. For some single threaded code we force other cores to idle so that one thread can get maximum cache and maximum frequency. A similar approach could be used to minimise the power analysis signal.