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Are you trying to suggest that the 4th issue port for Merom may be fused out on some parts as a DFM feature?

In a simplistic view of things, Merom is kind of a hyperthreaded version of Yonah, implemented in the DFM in a similar way.

Here's a link to a paper outlining the broader context, which might explain why I chose the above analogy.
http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~albonesi/wced03/papers/ekman.pdf

K.