DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800/1000 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. With the release of the AM2 platform, AMD has also joined the DDR2 camp, and this will slowly transform DDR2 into the new memory standard. The DDR2 market continues to expand, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, we expect capacities and speeds to only increase. As far as the pricing chart goes, this chart looks specifically at single module DDR2, and keeps to the standard DDR2-533, -667, -800, and -1000 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 1-GB.
We hoped the pricing situation would improve when we reached the single module DDR2 chart, but things actually seemed to get worse. The aggregate chart movement totaled to a very surprising $29 overall increase, and price drops were few and far between. The largest price decrease was a $4 cut to Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 512-MB, and there were only six price drops in total. The overall chart increase was due to a single listing, as the cost of Kingston HyperX DDR2-900 512-MB spiked by $32, and was the only double-digit price change of the week.
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