Intel and AMD were expected to fully make DDR2 transition to DDR3 across their product lines in 2009 and will now postpone their DDR3-only chipset schedules and is not expected to arrive until 2010.

Intel has decided to postpone its DDR3-only 5-series chipsets until September this year, since DDR3 memory prices have not fallen as much as Intel expected, while demand for its Core i7 CPU and X58 chipsets also has not met expectations.

AMD's is still struggling with technical difficulties to achieve stability and compatibly with the DDR3 controller built into its AM3-based CPUs, and so the company is also unlikely to transition to DDR3 until it is able to come out with a workable BIOS, added the sources.

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