Altera

Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from the cloud to the edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Founded in 1983 in Silicon Valley, Altera unveiled the world's first programmable logic device capable of being programmed, erased, and reprogrammed in 1984, altering the future of innovation. The company's end-to-end broad portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs, and IPUs. Its mission is to provide easy-to-design and deploy leadership programmable solutions, and its Agilex FPGA family leads in AI inference acceleration for data center, networking, and embedded applications. In 2024, Silver Lake invested in Altera, enabling it to operate as an independent company and world's largest standalone FPGA company.