High-End Memory Prices - Week of April 3, 2006 - Page 4

Single Module DDR2

DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800 MHz and above, and Intel was the first to jump on the DDR2 bandwagon, with the 975X, 955X, 945X, 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms all utilizing this high-end memory.. The DDR2 market continues to expand, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, and as the weeks pass, we expect that number to only grow. AMD is also slated to join the DDR2 camp sometime in 2006, and at that point, DDR2 will become the de facto memory for desktop PCs. As far as the pricing chart goes, we are looking specifically at single module DDR2, and keeping to the standard DDR2-533, -667, -800, and -1000 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 1-GB.

The single module DDR2 listings followed along with the same basic trends of the single module and dual channel DDR price lists, with one notable exception - a whopping $100 cut to the price of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB. In fact, Crucial DDR2 modules took the top three price-cut spots, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB fell by $28 and $26, respectively. Otherwise, is was business as usual, and the single module DDR2 list included four double-digit price cuts, a single double-digit price increase, and continuing our unexpected streak, an aggregate chart drop of $173.

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