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I'm not sure what else to make of this, but perhaps you can spot something interesting :).

I'm reluctant to draw any conclusions from these kind of portrayals. Whenever Intel publishes such, it usually has a footnote somewhere saying graphic not representative of actual die photo or relative size, but which gets lost when posted elsewhere.

Do you know of a case where only active transistors were specified? They didn't do that when they announced Prescott and pretended it was 32-bit only. I remember everyone saying that there were 'too many' transistors on that core.

First, nobody can count the transistors. Second, Intel is not obliged to use transistorcount-figures coherently. Third, wrt Prescott, rumours Intel will introduce T-technologies on 90nm products indicate Prescott's circuitry is still not completely utilized in current products. Although this is still rumour afaik. (?)

K.