Samsung announced a new mid-range Exynos 7904 SoC designed with the Indian market in mind. It should help the company's mid-range and entry level devices retain a competitive edge against the aggressively priced Chinese competitors. Samsung says the new SoC delivers high-end features in an affordable package. Perhaps the 14nm node on which the SoC is built gives Samsung some headroom with the pricing. It offers an octa-core CPU consisting of two big Cortex-A73 cores ticking at 1.8 GHz and six smaller and more energy-efficient Cortex-A53 cores running at 1.6 GHz. The LTE modem supports...