Intel has launched a standalone FPGA (field-programmable gate array) business, branding it Altera - after the company it acquired in 2015. The company will sell reconfigurable chips for systems across ...

For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house.

Intel's Altera buy was primarily to bolster its position in the server room. Image source: Intel. Last year, chip giant Intel announced its intention to acquire programmable logic chip specialist, ...

Intel Corp. today launched its standalone FPGA business, which will sell reconfigurable chips for systems ranging from cell towers to robots. The business traces its roots to a chipmaker called Altera ...

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...

Altera – Intel’s standalone company focused on FPGA hardware – introduced an array of FPGA hardware, software, and services at its annual developer conference. Nine months ago, Intel spun out Altera ...

Almost a decade after it bought the FPGA maker, Intel spins it off as a standalone company with the old brand name. Nine years ago, Intel shelled out $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera, its ...

Mixing FPGAs with CPUs—to serve and protect. What does this deal mean for both companies and the industry at large? On Monday, June 1, computer processor company Intel announced that it will buy ...

For decades, Intel processors have powered most of the world’s PCs. But the company is now looking outside its conventional chips to FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, as it searches for ways ...

As previously predicted, Intel plans to acquire Altera. The two companies announced this morning an agreement under which Intel would acquire Altera for $54 per share in an all-cash transaction valued ...

The chipmaker explains why Altera's Intel-built FPGA was delayed. Frist, Intel hoped to give Altera's core stand-alone Field Programmable Gate Array, or FPGA, business a competitive advantage by ...