I find it petty for Intel to describe more software-based solutions to fully homomorphic encryption (FHM) as "software cheats". This is especially since their c

I find it petty for Intel to describe more software-based solutions to fully homomorphic encryption (FHM) as "software cheats". This is especially since their competition, Duality Technologies, specializes more on the software side and they are certainly much smaller in size. When you have giant corporations like Intel being able to label their smaller competition's technology as "software cheats", then it becomes an incredibly toxic environment. If anyone were to do it to Intel, they would be sued for libel and slander and other anti-competitive tactics. However, I shouldn't be surprised. The industry normalizes this type of discourse. At the same time, the same giant corporations will preach about AI safety and claim you can only trust them with it. That being said, this is a great innovation by Intel. I was impressed at their technology and the thorough discussion about how this type of computing is related to GPU's and CPU's. It's especially interesting given the emergence of computational memory applications.