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 looks like DDR2 is getting back on track, and there is a ton of pricing activity in this week's single-module DDR2 memory chart. To start off, a triple-digit price drop really got the chart humming, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 1-GB fell by $100. This is accompanied by nine double-digit price cuts, including Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 1-GB (-$36), Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 512-MB (-$27), and Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 1-GB (-$21) modules. There were only two price increases to account for, but these were both above the $20 mark, as Kingston HyperX DDR2-750 1-GB increased by $24 and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB jumped $32. The aggregate chart decrease was an extremely healthy $230, which is far in excess of the $67 total drop we posted last time.
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