DDR2 price will increase

After months of non-stop price cuts, DDR2 memory chips will be more expensive from February 2006. Within the last weeks, the price of the DDR2-533 was raised up by 7%.
This increase might be valid for quite some time, due to a combination of different factors:
- main manufacturers, such as Samsung, have reorganize DDR2 production lines to produce NAND chips used for flash memory such as the one used in iPod Nano.
- DDR2-base motherboards are finally becoming a standard, thanks to large availability of Intel chipsets.