And the die size is larger than you expected, so that means everyone else is wrong and Intel quadrupled the L2 cache.
Perhaps ChipGuy gave you too much credit. He was trying to spark your imagination into realizing there may be more to Dothan than has yet been revealed. Does that help?
I suspect what he means is there is a good bit of room for improvement and that they already have the ways avaiable to do it. Whether or not that's actually the case - who knows? Paul