Altera
FPGA maker; former Intel PSG, now majority-owned by Silver Lake.
- Headquarters
- Rockville Centre, US
- Founded
- 1983
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- FPGA
About Altera
Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California, with a primary focus on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology and system-on-a-chip (SoC) FPGAs. Founded in 1983, it was acquired by Intel in 2015, re-established under the Altera name in 2024, and in 2025 became a privately held company majority-owned by private equity firm Silver Lake.