DDR3 to become dominant by next June

DDR3 could be just months away from unseating DDR2 as the leading system memory type for PCs. In its latest report, iSuppli says it expects DDR3 to account for 50.9% of global DRAM shipments by the second quarter of 2010, before going on to make up 71% of shipments by the end of that same year.

For reference, the market research firm points out that DDR3 only made up 1% of shipments in the second quarter of 2008 and 14.2% in the second quarter of this year. Shipments climbed to 23% last quarter, and iSuppli reckons they'll go up another nine points this quarter.