Intel's Heracles chip accelerates fully homomorphic encryption computing 5,000-fold using 3nm technology; enables secure AI data processing without decryption in milliseconds versus days on standard CPUs.

Intel's Heracles Chip Speeds Up FHE Computing

SummaryFully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computing on encrypted data without decryption, but it’s currently slow on standard CPUs and GPUs.Intel’s Heracles chip accelerates FHE tasks up to 5,000 times faster than top Intel server CPUs.Heracles uses a 3-nanometer FinFET technology and high-bandwidth memory, enabling efficient encrypted computing at scale.Startups and Intel are racing to commercialize FHE accelerators, with potential applications in AI and secure data processing.Worried th...