Under the proposed plan, registered suppliers will be subjected to additional fees, which will pave the way for additional user features such as electronic bidding and electronic payment.
After two straight years of blockbuster expansion, the market for magnetic sensors experienced lower-than-expected growth in 2012 due mainly to depressed automotive sales and a diminished industrial sector.
Qualcomm also discussed the company?s new Snapdragon processors, extension of core services to AllJoyn, and its collaboration with Mozilla?s Firefox OS initiative.