High-End Memory Prices - Week of January 23, 2006 - 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.

Overall DDR2 price cuts have been slowing down for the past few months, and our latest update does not show this trend coming to an end. The aggregate chart movement was almost a total wash, and only showed a tiny $5 overall jump. The price cuts were certainly not coming on strong, as the $26 cut to the Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 2x1-GB dual-channel kit was the only price drop to hit double digits. There was a nice selection of smaller cuts, but these were eaten up by the four double-digit price increases, which ranged from $10 to $27.

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