No, that's not how it works. Intel had the ability to put more transistors on the same die size with the same power requirements. This was long after they reac

No, that's not how it works. Intel had the ability to put more transistors on the same die size with the same power requirements. This was long after they reached thermal/clockspeed limits (with the P4). They started putting additional cores in there and bumped up the L2 and L3 caches, but there was still space left on the die. What do you do with those extra transistors? It would be absurd to "leave them blank" as you are basically throwing money down the drain.