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Question on buying New Server and my Oracle License Agreement

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Product: Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition

I would like to upgrade my physical production database server which is now end of life to a newer server. However the proposed newer server at its lowest specs has more cores than its predecessor as standard.  If the new server model allows me to reduce the cores utilized by the server so that it matches what is covered in the License Agreement for the production database, could I use that same higher core machine provided it is configured in the BIOS to use only half the cores? For example I have a license for 8 cores however I have a

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