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 start to see the trends reverse somewhat in the single module DDR2 chart, but even a total chart drop of $46 can be misconstrued as a positive trend. There were only a few double-digit price shifts, and virtually the entire chart drop can be attributed to a $53 price drop to Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB. Sure, OCZ DDR2-1000 Gold 512-MB fell by $19, but Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 1-GB also increased by $19, and the overall single module DDR2 trend was one of stable prices, with only a single significant price change. In fact, over half of the individual entries showed no price change at all, and the majority of others showed price shifts of under $8.
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