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 move to the DDR2 charts doesn't change the overall trends, and the single module DDR2 chart fails to offer any respite from the wild price increases. It even gets worse here, and the overall chart movement totaled a incredible $331 increase, a far cry from the measly $44 total jump we charted last time out. There were two price drops that reached double digits, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB fell by $36 and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 512-MB shed $10 off its retail price. But after that, the situation gets very dark, with fifteen price increases of $10 or more. Some were quite scary, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB jumped by $39, while the price of Corsair XMS2 DDR2-667 1-GB and OCZ DDR2-800 Plat 1-GB spiked by $41 and $54, respectively.
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