It seems that Advanced Micro Devices remains consequent to its habits of letting Intel enjoy all the fun of developing new technologies, only to adopt them after some time, when the company considers said technologies to be affordable enough on the market. AMD acted this way when the industry went from DDR to DDR2 and now it does the same thing with the move from DDR2 to DDR3.

For the past few months, we saw Intel spend a lot of time and money in its pursue to convince everybody that DDR3 is a worthy thing, yet the company had too little success in DDR3 motherboard sales, due to the fact that, all the way through 2007 and 2008, DDR3 had some ridiculous prices.

The prices for DDR3 memory modules became a lot more affordable these days, and now we have the OCZ 1GB DDR3 priced at $55, while the 2GB DDR3 modules, either from Corsair or OCZ, can be purchased for a reasonable $110 price. Yet, DDR2 is more affordable still, but AMD considers the time has come to make the move to DDR3 chipsets and processors.

The new DDR3 motherboards from AMD are due to strike somewhere in Q1 2009 and we hope they will arrive in the late Q1 if not delayed. It seems that by the early 2009, prices for DDR3 will experience a severe drop and become a normal thing, so AMD lovers and DDR3 enthusiasts have something to be happy about.

For those who are not familiar with the terms, we should mention that the DDR3 part of the chipset is actually located inside the CPU. The motherboards will also feature an AM3 socket which will allow DDR3 and new processors do their job. The existing Hypertransport 3 architecture will also be featured in the new DDR3 boards.

All points to the fact that the first DDR3 based boards AMD plans to release should be RD790 DDR3 and RD890 DDR3.