Using Data Mining Differently

The semiconductor industry generates a tremendous quantity of data, but until very recently engineers had to sort through it on their own to spot patterns, trends and aberrations. That's beginning to change as chipmakers develop their own solutions or partner with others to effectively mine this data. Adding some structure and automation around all of this data is long overdue. Data mining has been in widespread use for the better part of this decade for everything from marketing to to bitcoin. The initial idea was that keywords, phrases, and even images and shapes can be sifted out of massive quantities of data with pattern recognition.