(Reuters) -Two of the world's largest chipmakers, TSMC and Samsung Electronics, have discussed building potential chip projects in the United Arab Emirates in coming years which could be worth more than $100 billion,

Projects of the scale under consideration could cost more than $100 billion to complete and may not come to fruition, the paper reported.

Top executives at TSMC have visited the UAE recently and talked about a plant complex on par with some of the company’s largest and most advanced facilities in Taiwan, WSJ said citing people familiar with the interactions.