The semiconductor division of Korean electronics giants, Samsung, has started volume production 128GB embedded storage chips for next-generation smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the company revealed on Tuesday. Once the upgrade arrives on the scene, it will double or quadruple the internal memory capacity in comparison to today’s high-end mobile handsets. iPhone 5, Apple latest edition of the series, features the highest volume of internal storage as of now, 64GB, while recently announced Optimus G from LG Electronics and Nokia’s Lumia 920 both come with 32GB storage chips.

Memory Card; No More Required

Samsung’s latest announcement does not come as a surprise or an extravagant venture since consumers now watch and shoot images and video with cameras whose resolution improvements are showing no signs of stopping. Besides the obvious necessity, great internal storage also removes the requirement of a memory card slot thereby allowing smartphone designers to manufacture a much smaller and a compact device.

128 GB eMMC will Read Data Faster than Normal Memory Cards

According to Samsung, the new 128GB eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard) Pro Class 1500 memory reads data sequentially at speeds up to 140MBps and writes it at up to 50MBps, which is five times faster than Class-10 rated external memory cards. However, it is difficult to come with the release time of smartphones that will be incorporating this memory chip since all the phones fighting in the market over the holiday season have already been announced. Experts say that the next generation of handsets are likely to be revealed during the CES trade show in January or at Mobile World Congress in February, providing vendors with more time to incorporate the memory chipsets in their designs.

Storage Chip is a way of Increasing Profits

In today’s market, storage chip are of immense importance to the vendors as it is one of the very few ways to increase their profits. That is because smartphone manufacturers like Apple who release multiple models for a particular smartphone, distinguished in terms of internal storage capacity, pay very little for memory upgrades whereas the difference in the retail price is much greater. The development does seems as an exciting prospect for manufacturers but is not something they will be hugely dependent on considering the arrival of 4G LTE access, allowing consumers to make more use of cloud based services. Users won’t be needing more storage on their phone to download stuff if they can access it directly over the internet.