Altera News
Latest Altera news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 3 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Altera
Altera is a San Jose, California-based semiconductor company and the world's largest independent supplier of programmable logic devices. Best known for the Agilex, Stratix, Arria and Cyclone FPGA families and the Quartus Prime design tools, Altera was acquired by Intel in 2015 for $16.7 billion, re-established as a standalone brand in 2024, and became majority-owned by Silver Lake in September 2025 after a $4.46 billion transaction that valued the business at $8.75 billion. Intel retains a 49% stake.
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Products by Altera
- Agilex FPGA — Agilex is Altera's flagship FPGA family, including Agilex 3, 5 and 7 SoC devices integrating ARM Cortex processor subsystems. The product line targets AI accele...
Latest Altera news
- Altera Signs Rutronik As New European FPGA Distributor — Independent Altera hands Rutronik a strategic distribution agreement covering Agilex 3, 5, 7, 9 and legacy Stratix, MAX and Cyclone FPGAs across Europ...
- Altera and Riverlane Partner to Run Quantum Error Correction on Agilex FPGAs — Altera and Riverlane on September 10, 2026 announced a partnership that validates Riverlane's open-source QECi design example on the Agilex 7 FPGA, gi...
- Silver Lake, Intel-Backed Altera Preps $2B+ IPO As Soon As 2026 — FPGA maker Altera is preparing to file confidentially for a $2B+ IPO with Barclays, Citi, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley as underwriters, sources tell Re...