Altera

Altera Corporation
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryIntegrated circuits
FoundedJune 1983 (June 1983)
HeadquartersSan Jose, California, United States
Key people
Sandra L. Rivera (CEO)
Shannon J. Poulin (COO)
ProductsFPGAs
CPLDs
Embedded systems
ASICs
RevenueIncrease $1.932 billion (2014)
Increase $472 million (2014)
Total assetsDecrease $5.674 billion (2014)
Total equityDecrease $3.285 billion (2014)
Number of employees
3,091 (2014)
ParentIntel
Websitealtera.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015 before becoming independent once again in 2024 as a company focused on development of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology and system on a chip FPGAs.

The company was founded in 1983 by semiconductor veterans Rodney Smith, Robert Hartmann, James Sansbury, and Paul Newhagen with $500,000 in seed money. The name of the company was a play on "alterable", the type of chips the company created. In 1988, Altera became a public company via an initial public offering (IPO).[2]

On December 28, 2015, the company was acquired by Intel and became a newly formed business unit called Programmable Solutions Group (PSG).[3] In October 2023, Intel announced it would be spinning off PSG into a separate company at the start of 2024, while maintaining majority ownership and intending to seek an IPO within three years.[4][5] In February 2024, Intel announced that the newly independent company would reestablish the Altera name and branding.[6]

  1. ^ "Altera Corporation 2014 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  2. ^ "The Road to Innovation Drive" (PDF). Altera News & Views. 2003 (Q2): 5–10. June 2003.
  3. ^ Darrow, Barb (December 28, 2015). "Altera Gives Intel a Hot Hand in Programmable Chips". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  4. ^ King, Ian (October 3, 2023). "Intel to Make Former Altera Into Standalone Business, Seek IPO". Bloomberg News.
  5. ^ Leswing, Kif (October 3, 2023). "Intel plans to IPO programmable chip unit within three years; stock rises after hours". CNBC.
  6. ^ "Intel Launches Altera, Its New Standalone FPGA Company". Intel. Retrieved 2024-02-29.

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