Intel Heracles - FHE Chip Delivers 5,547x Speedup for Encrypted Computation

Intel demonstrated the Heracles processor at ISSCC - a 3nm chip for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), which processes data without decrypting it. Performance: 1,074-5,547x faster than a 24-core Xeon CPU.

FHE makes quantum-safe, privacy-preserving cloud computing production-ready - enabling encrypted-by-default infrastructure even before Q-Day arrives.