Following the trend of the two last quarters of 2011, G.Skill, a leading memory module Manufacturer based in Taipei, Taiwan, was also the most popular DDR3 brand in the first quarter of 2012. With almost 1/3rd of the benchmark submissions done with G.Skill memory, they are well ahead of Corsair and Kingston in terms of popularity. Also noteworthy is the rise of GeIL, which is now the 4th most popular brand at HWBOT.

	HWBOT DDR3 DRAM Usage Figures
	(based on results with DDR3 memory and linked to MFC)
	Q1 2012		Q4 2011		Q1 2011
	Pos.	Share	Pos.	Share	Pos.	Share
GSkill	1	33,22%	1	29,00%	2	25,80%
Corsair	2	23,15%	2	27,38%	1	27,46%
Kingston Technology	3	13,12%	3	16,79%	3	13,09%
GeIL	4	4,54%	7	2,66%	10	1,54%
Patriot	5	4,12%	5	3,87%	7	3,63%
ADATA	6	3,61%	4	4,94%	8	3,56%
Mushkin	7	2,33%	6	3,27%	5	4,43%
Super Talent	8	2,23%	10	1,29%	6	4,01%
Samsung	9	2,19%	13	0,90%	14	1,07%
Exceleram	10	1,91%	/	/	12	1,26%
(compiled on 02/04/2012, for more information contact info@hwbot.org)