High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of May 31, 2004 - Page 3

Registered DDR

The desktop market for registered DDR begins and ends with the Athlon 64 FX-based platforms. This is due to its Opteron-based lineage, and the Athlon 64 FX requires registered DDR, rather than standard unbuffered DDR. It has created a market need for 400 MHz PC3200 Registered DDR, and several manufacturers have jumped in to supply this enthusiast market. Due to the lower number of available registered DDR modules, we've gone a bit outside the Top 5 manufacturers, and also listed both the single module and matched pair PC3200 DDR prices. This is still mostly a niche market for desktop buyers, so overall vendor and module choice may be limited for the near future.

We anticipated that the impending arrival of the Socket 939 platform would drive Registered DDR prices down, but at least for now, these are moving in the opposite direction. Supplies of Registered DDR seem to be drying up, and most of our charted increases are due to some vendors dropping out of the market, and we're being forced to move to a higher-priced listing. We'll have to wait and see how Socket 939 affects this market in the future, but it looks like many vendors are doing some early preparation for the transition to standard DDR.

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