Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data
Summary
Intel's Heracles chip demonstrates a hardware accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption, delivering up to 5,000x speedups over Xeon CPUs for encrypted-data computations. The design combines 3-nm FinFET technology, high-bandwidth memory, and a tiled SIMD architecture to enable scalable secure data processing, with startups actively pursuing commercialization.