General Networking chip market generated estimated revenues of $3,097 million for the quarter 3Q07. Chips shipped for the same period were estimated at 477.2 million units.

Texas Instruments maintained lead in this segment with around 11% of the total share. NXP was the second largest player with share of around 10%. Other significant players are Freescale, STMicrosystems and Maxim IC.

In comparison to 2Q 2007, all the top 5 players saw some sequential decline in their revenues as well as in the number of units shipped. The possible reason for this could be the uptake in the usage of special purpose chips rather than the usage of generic networking chip.

General Networking chip segment is the largest revenue contributor in communications chip market.