Same vendor – but otherwise unrelated news – Micron  has joined CERN openlab, a public-private partnership, by signing a three-year agreement. It will supply CERN with next-generation memory products to further machine learning capabilities for high-energy physics experiments at the laboratory.

Micron will develop and introduce a specially designed Micron memory solution that will be tested by researchers at CERN for use in rapidly combing through the vast amount of data generated by experiments.

The project will feature FPGA-based boards with Micron’s high-performance memory combined with a neural network technology developed in collaboration between Micron and FWDNXT, a provider of deep learning and AI solutions.