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.
It is a much different story in the single-module DDR2 memory chart, and it's almost an exact reversal of the Registered DDR listings. This time, instead of a wide range of price drops, we find four double-digit price increases, including a $43 jump to Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB and an insane $112 spike to Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB. On the flip side, there was only a single price decrease that hit double digits, and even so, the $10 cut to the price of Buffalo Firestix DDR2-1000 1-GB barely qualified. The total chart movement should be no surprise, and the aggregate change was +$147 for the week, which certainly doesn't ring the dinner bell for potential DDR2 buyers.
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