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If the 3d cache is 100% between the cores, it seems to me that the solution for the cooling requirements would be to step the heat spreader so that it is closer to the cores and thinner over the cache area. Less of the low performance TIM and more of the higher performance metal over the cores, and the cache is closer to the cooling all around.