Requests for comment were not responded to by the company, which is headquartered in Wuhan, the provincial capital of central Hubei. The growing animosity between Beijing and Washington has largely spared the YMTC. It did not experience the same fate as important Chinese tech companies such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp and Huawei Technologies Co, which were placed on Washington's business blacklist in the early stages of the US-China tech war. As a result, YMTC is in a unique position to guide China's semiconductor industry in reducing its reliance on imported technologies while pursuing innovation.