WASHINGTON -- Prices for synchronous DRAMs continued to plunge to new lows this week, with the added wrinkle that Micron Technology Inc.'s Crucial.com Web site offering PC-1600 double data rate (DDR) SDRAM modules at the same price as single data rate PC133 modules.

Spot market prices for workhorse 64-megabit (8x8) PC133 chips dropped to $2.70-to-$2.75. Even next generation 128-Mbit (16x8) PC133 memories fell to $6.20 -- the same price range that 64-Mbit chips sold for only last fall. Ironically, trailing edge 64-Mbit (4x16) EDO DRAMs were selling at nearly four times the price of similar density SDRAMs.