INSIGHTS
Notes from the Fog
Engineering perspectives on encrypted computation, hardware acceleration, and building the infrastructure for privacy-first AI.
Jun 17, 2026
Open-Sourcing Niobium FHE Developer Tools
We believe encrypted computation should be accessible to any developer. We deployed and licensed the first part of our development stack on GitHub under Apache 2.0.
- Company News
- Zero Trust Computing
- Culture
May 14, 2026
Compute on Secrets
A Plain-English Intro to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
- FHE Solutions
- Culture
May 7, 2026
Why I Joined Niobium - Evan Scott
Evan Scott has helped bring rockets, ad platforms, and accelerated compute to market. He joined Niobium because the next bottleneck isn't AI itself — it's the trust gap around sensitive data.
- Culture
Apr 22, 2026
Why I Joined Niobium - Rob Sherrard
Rob Sherrard co-founded Nimbix to democratize supercomputing. Now he's joined Niobium for the same reason. FHE is where HPC was 15 years ago, and The Fog makes it accessible.
- Culture
Apr 14, 2026
Why I Joined Niobium - John Barrus
Niobium's VP of Product explains why he joined the company make fully homomorphic encryption practical for real-world use, and why encrypted compute is urgent.
- Culture
Media Coverage
Niobium Advances Fully Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator ASIC Toward Production
Partnership with SEMIFIVE and Samsung Foundry marks key milestone in bringing encrypted computation into real-world cloud and AI infrastructure
- Company News
Niobium Raises $23M+ in Oversubscribed Funding to Advance FHE Hardware Acceleration for the Quantum and AI Era
Niobium, a leading custom silicon provider for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) platforms, today announced the close of a $23 million-plus oversubscribed follow-on investment to its seed round.
- Company News
- Machine Learning
- Finance
Bitcoin Ethereum News: Three Homomorphic Encryption Trends for 2025
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is entering real-world use in 2025, with AI, blockchain, and national security driving adoption—and open standards paving the way.
- FHE Solutions
- Company News
CityBiz: Niobium Secures $5.5M Venture Financing
- Company News
Cybersecurity Insiders FHE: The Privacy Revolution Cybersecurity Needs Now
Niobium CTO Dr. David Archer outlines how Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables secure data processing without decryption, offering a practical solution for privacy in cloud computing, healthcare
- Private Information Retrieval
- Company News
Cybersecurity Insiders: FHE: The Privacy Revolution Cybersecurity Needs Now
Discover how Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables private information retrieval (PIR), allowing organizations to query sensitive data without revealing intentions—reshaping cybersecurity, protec
- Company News
- Private Information Retrieval
Dark Reading: FHE Consortium Pushes for Quantum-Resilient Cryptography Standards
- FHE Solutions
Design & Reuse: Niobium and Veriest collaborate to develop the world’s fastest complete FHE accelerator chip
- FHE Solutions
Digitalization World: Secure processing of data – as easy as FHE?
Niobium explains Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)—how it works, why it matters, and what it means for AI, cloud security, and quantum threats.
- FHE Solutions
- Company News
Disaster Recovery Journal: 2025 Forecast: A Perfect Storm for Privacy Technology
As data privacy becomes a strategic imperative, this blog explores why Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is gaining momentum—driven by regulation, public demand, and the need for secure AI and data c
- Company News
- Private Information Retrieval
- Zero Trust Computing
Disaster Recovery Journal: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Industry Leaders Join Forces to Form Global FHE Hardware Consortium
- FHE Solutions
EENews: Niobium Microsystems Inc. (Dayton, Ohio), a startup founded in 2021 to address fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), has joined the Silicon Catalyst incubator.
- FHE Solutions
EENews: Niobium raises $5.5m as it tapes out homomorphic encryption chip
- Company News
EETimes: Niobium Raises $5.5 Million, Tapes Out FHE Chip
- Company News
Electronic Design: 11 Myths About Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption is no longer just theoretical—Niobium’s FHE accelerator delivers real-world performance gains, making encrypted computation practical and increasingly viable for real appl
- FHE Solutions
- Company News
Electronic Design: 11 Myths About Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is no longer theoretical—this article explains how hardware advances, industry standards, and real-world applications are bringing FHE into the mainstream of data pr
- FHE Solutions
- Company News
Embedded Computing Design: Mathematical Certainty in Security: The Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- FHE Solutions
IT Pro: 3 Homomorphic Encryption Trends for 2025
- FHE Solutions
- Personalized AI
PR Newswire: CryptoLab and Niobium Partner to Bring Guaranteed Privacy to LLM and Generative AI Applications
- Company News
PRNewswire: Dayton microelectronics firm introduces new CEO
- Company News
PRNewswire: Niobium Secures $5.5 Million in Venture Financing to Commercialize FHE Accelerator Chip
- FHE Solutions
SecurityWeek: Niobium Raises $5.5M for Zero Trust Computing Hardware Acceleration
- Company News
StartUs Insights: Top 10 Technology Trends to Watch
- Company News
TechEdge AI: CryptoLab and Niobium Partner to Launch Encrypted GenAI for Privacy and Performance
- Company News
The Deep View: The New Hardware that will Transform AI
- Company News