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Altera

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 2025 as a company focused on development of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology and system on a chip FPGAs.

Key facts

Company.name: Altera Corporation
Company.logo: Altera-logo-tm-alterablue-500px.png
Company.image: Altera HQ in February 2026.jpg
Company.image_caption: Altera headquarters in San Jose, California in 2026
Company.type: Private
Company.traded_as: Nasdaq: ALTR (until 2015)
Company.industry: Integrated circuits
Company.location: San Jose, California, United States
Company.founders: Robert Hartmann,Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet
Company.key_people: Raghib Hussain (CEO)
Company.products: FPGAs,CPLDs,Embedded systems,ASICs
Company.revenue: $1.932 billion (2014)
Company.net_income: $472 million (2014)
Company.assets: $5.674 billion (2014)
Company.equity: $3.285 billion (2014)
Company.num_employees: 3,091 (2014)
Company.parent: Silver Lake (51%)Intel (49%)

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Contents

Early history
Products
FPGAs
Semiconductor intellectual property cores
System on a chip FPGAs
Soft Processor cores
Design software
Intel partnership, acquisition and ownership
PLD technology licensing partnership
Intel 14-nm technology
Acquisition and ownership by Intel
Restatement of financial results
See also
References

== Early history == The company was founded in 1983 by semiconductor veterans Robert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, and Michael Magranet with $1,300,000 in seed money. The name of the company was a play on "alterable", the type of chips the company created. The founders selected Rodney Smith to be the company's first CEO. In 1988, Altera became a public company via an initial public offering (IPO).