There appeared some details concerning the recently signed agreement between VIA, Apacer and Nanya about DDR SDRAM popularization. As we found out, according to this agreement VIA will supply 500,000 chipsets per month and Nanya – 4,000,000 128Mbit chips per month (as a result, there will be 500,000 128MB modules). Taking into account that there are not so many DDR mainboards selling yet, these numbers seem very impressive. No doubt, the volumes will rise if this experiment succeeds.
All the mainboard manufacturers (including ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI) are already considering the possibility to buy these "chipset + module" packages and are very likely to make up their mind quite soon. In this case the retail prices on mainboards accompanied with 128MB DDR memory module will definitely drop below $300. So, have patience, guys...