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 again see a bit more improvement once we reach the single module DDR2 chart, but this is still far from good news. The aggregate chart movement was again in the positive category, and the single module DDR2 chart increased by a total of $31 this week. Thankfully, there were two price drops that hit double digits, as OCZ DDR2-1000 Gold 512-MB and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB fell by $22 and $17, respectively. But as the total chart movement attests, there were more price increases, and three reached double-digits. These included Patriot eXtreme DDR2-700 512-MB (-$10), Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB (+$10), and Buffalo Firestix DDR2-1000 1-GB (+$31).
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