Supposedly the Palomino will be produced by AMD with purer silicon, so that due to the better heat dissipation and less heat generation MHz higher numbers are possible. The very pure silicon it would be the Palomino 0 AMD possible, operate 18µm technique with a MHz number approximately 1.7 GHz.

According to the first AMD tests this purer silicon for 12 months. This “pure silicon” is produced by the Californian company “Isonics”, that but so far not confirmed that it is working with AMD. Isonics has said only that “a great processor manufacturer has made her pure silicon wafers and reduced the peak temperature of their advanced 1 GHz CPUs this to 35 ° C”. For the consumer, the price of a CPU, which was made of this Silicon, is likely only slightly are about the price of previous CPUs as the purer Silicon is hardly more expensive than the previous. Also the manufacturing facility in the factories must be not converted, such as when a change to the 0, 13µm technology.