Although we have had some strong evidence that AMD will not adopt DDR2 soon, today we received official word that AMD will not adopt DDR2 in 2004, and certainly not well into 2005. AMD's DDR2 philosophy revolves around "performance, price and availability"; that is, AMD will not implement DDR2 until all three of those criteria are suitable for entry. Our sources claim this is the same strategy AMD approached to memory when it chose DDR memory over Rambus several years ago.

Perhaps the most interesting statement in AMD's newest release was the two key points outlined for the actual deployment of DDR2:

AMD will support DDR2 when it makes sense:

AMD Benches DDR2 for 2004

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