# HEIR advances integration of fully homomorphic encryption with accelerator hardware

DevFeed: [HEIR advances integration of fully homomorphic encryption with accelerator hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-last-few-months-in-heir-40511.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2024-11-15-0831/>)

Published: 2024-11-15T18:25:51Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [FHE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fhe.md>), [homomorphic encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homomorphic-encryption.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [fpga](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fpga.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>)

Tags: [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [fhe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fhe.md>), [fpga](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fpga.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [shortform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shortform.md>)

## AI overview

This developer update describes progress on HEIR, a compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption. The project is working with hardware vendors and researchers to target GPU, FPGA, ASIC, optical, and TPU accelerators, while contributing to standardized hardware interfaces and optimizing FHE compilation and machine learning inference.

## Source excerpt

In my little corner of the FHE world, things have been steadily heating up. For those who don't know, my main work project right now is HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), a compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). For an extended introduction see this talk from October 2023. The primary focus of HEIR is to compile to FHE hardware accelerators. And boy there are a lot of them. There are GPU and FPGA accelerators, as well as special purpose ASICs and even optical accelerators (discrete Fourier transforms at the speed of light).