A new natural substance that dissipates heat much better than ceramics is being tested and a Palomino prototype is reported to be running in AMD's Fab25 in Austin at 1.5GHz with a simple passive heatsink.
Details of temperatures have yet to leak, but the test chip is said to use aluminium, rather than copper interconnects.
A Fab 25 insider said Palomino was "looking good".
December 4, 2000 - 9:00pm