High-End Memory Prices - Week of April 17, 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 show a very different trend than the standard DDR charts, and we're back to the usual pattern of double-digit price cuts combined with a triple-digit overall chart drop. This time the aggregate chart decrease comes in at $138, which is not as impressive as our last guide, but still well ahead of the DDR listings There were also six double-digit price drops, with Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB (-$40), Patriot eXtreme DDR2-800 512-MB (-$27), and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB (-$20) being the most significant. There was virtually nothing to report in terms of higher DDR2 prices, with a single $3 increase being the only such entry.

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