  "If you ask ten experts, you will get ten different opinions." This common
proverb illustrates the common association of expert forecasts with personal
bias and lack of consistency. On the other hand, digitization promises
consistency and explainability through data-driven forecasts employing machine
learning (ML) and statistical models. In the following, we compare such
forecasts to expert forecasts from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics
(WSTS), a leading semiconductor market data provider.
