Apple CEO Tim Cook was among tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping New York Times investigation. The previously unreported July 2023 meeting in Silicon Valley was arranged at the request of then-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who had grown frustrated with the tech industry's reluctance to move chip production away from Taiwan.

CIA Director William Burns and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines presented the latest intelligence on China's military plans to Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. Cook reportedly told officials afterward that he slept "with one eye open." The briefing came as U.S. officials ranked America's reliance on Taiwan for semiconductors as one of the nation's greatest vulnerabilities, prompting the $50 billion CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.

Despite warnings that losing access to Taiwan's chip supply would trigger the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with U.S. GDP falling 11 percent, companies including Apple were initially slow to commit to buying more expensive chips from U.S. factories. Chips made domestically cost more than 25 percent above those produced in Taiwan. Apple has since taken steps, committing to invest $100 billion in the United States and holding all-day engineering meetings with Intel to evaluate its manufacturing capabilities.