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.
The overall pricing structure improved slightly when we reached the single module DDR2 chart, and a total chart decrease of $25 may be smaller than usual, but at this point, we'll take it. In terms of individual price drops, the most significant hit the Geil DDR2-667 Ultra 1-GB (-$13) and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 512-MB (-$12) modules, while there was only one double-digit price increase, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB jumped by $10. The price cuts were certainly not as deep as we hoped, but overall trends in DDR2 have also been angling towards consistency. With the AM2 platform emerging as the default AMD configuration, this is hardly a surprising occurrence.
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