Of course, DDR-SDRAM is really not that new at all. It was pretty much introduced in the mainstream-PC arena by NVIDIA almost a year ago. NVIDIA's GeForce 3D-chip was one of the first PC-components that worked with DDR-SDRAM and since this time there is hardly any high-end 3D-card that could do without this memory type anymore. However, it took a while longer until all the specifications for DDR-SDRAM as main memory were finalized.

The Memory Industry Gives Broad Support

Due to its free and open specification , DDR-SDRAM enjoys a broad support in the memory industry. Right now we know of eight different memory makers that are already producing DDR-SDRAM DIMMs in all kinds of sizes.

DDR-SDRAM gets manufactured in a very similar way as normal SDRAM, which is why there won't be much of a price premium for the new memory type.