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.
Things were quite different in the DDR2 sector, and single module DDR2 listings show a definite trend downward. The aggregate chart drop was a very nice $148, and the individual price drops were there in abundance. A total of four modules showed double-digit cuts, including Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB (-$62), Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB (-$60), Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 1-GB (-$18), and Corsair XMS2 DDR2-667 1-GB (-$15). There were no price increases that reached double digits, with only a few in the $2 to $9 range. The top two price drops were from DDR2-1000 modules from Crucial, and this trend will continue in the dual channel DDR2 chart.
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