High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of July 11, 2005 - Page 4

Single & Matched Pair DDR2

Intel has jumped on the DDR2 bandwagon, and the 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms can utilize this high-end memory. DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667 MHz and above. The DDR2 market continues to grow, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, and as the weeks pass, we expect that number to only grow.

We're also concentrating mainly on DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 modules, although higher-end DDR2-800 and DDR2-1000 are just starting to emerge. DDR2 has moved beyond the niche market stage, but it will take some time (and AMD jumping on board) before it becomes the de facto memory standard.

The DDR2 chart has really started to heat up, and only a few weeks after we experienced a significant cool down in the price cut area. Granted, the three big price cuts of the week are all for Mushkin listings, all of which have shown some price increases in the past and were priced higher than the market average. This is more like a "settling down" period, but it's still tough to ignore a $174 cut to Mushkin DDR2-667 2x1-GB, and $90 and $54 drops to Mushkin DDR2-667 1-GB and Mushkin DDR2-533 2x1-GB, respectively. These also contributed to a total DDR2 price list drop of over $400, by far the largest of the memory types.

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