Oh yeah, the decoders that look like memory structures.
Um, you might want to take a look at a labeled K8 die photo before you embarrass yourself further.
The supposed FP boosted K8L with essentially unchanged FPU.
You're clearly not looking very closely. It's *much* larger relative to the ALU, compared to the K8.
I bet you didn't expect AMD's first 65 nm part to be a single core device.
If I were bringing up a new core, that's exactly what I'd do first. Of course, this says nothing about production parts. Will SC parts launch before, with or after DC and QC parts? Who knows.