You can't deny using your smartphone for nearly everything, and that “everything” requires space. Storage is becoming more and more important in smartphones, whether you like to load up on apps, transfer virtually every album you own, or, you’re like me, and are a serious photo taker. There's nothing wrong with that, but the extra storage capacity isn't free. In fact, sometimes it's simply more than most people are willing to pay. Samsung, two years after mentioning plans to design a custom core chip in 2013, didn't forget about it's promise. The company is now gearing up to release these custom mobile CPU cores by 2016, and we could see them integrated into budget smartphones.

The reason this is important is the amount of storage this would actually entail, 128GB, to be used in both mid-range smartphones and tablets. Samsung hopes to “put larger storage capacities into mass market mobile devices” by releasing what will be the industry's highest-density architecture of its kind, a 3-bit NAND-based Embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) 5.0. (Ubergizmo). We usually only see this kind of storage in high-end devices like iPhone 6, but Samsung's chip will change this trend, providing the 128GB space “at very minimal premium over current price”, says the company.

That sounds awesome, except since Samsung hasn't released any pricing details, it's kind of just hearsay at the moment. However, the chip is still something to be excited about. The eMMC chip contains both integrated flash memory, and a flash memory controller, can run 260 megabytes per second of sequential reading, and support HD video processing (PC World).

The trend of budget smartphones and tablets becoming more and more equivalent to the big shots isn't going anywhere. Soon, we may laugh at the idea of purchasing an iPhone 6, because we won't need to.