Around 8,000 people are now employed by a range of blue chip companies.

"I doubt this could happen at any other blue- chip company in Sweden," he said.

Other chip companies are also working on solutions to the problem.

Some of the chip companies want the consortium to be huge and to sell the chips on the open market.

Dell was one of the first blue chip companies to work with Tocquigny, starting the relationship in the early 1990s.

He inspired a group of people to start a chip company of the same name.

Others say that chip companies and equipment suppliers need to work more closely.

Truth is of course without the state the British blue chip companies wouldn't surive a year in a true real market.

In addition, computer makers are looking at helping chip companies pay for new plants.

Its usage is limited to only blue chip companies.