60 news items tagged Altera
Global tech giants rushing to invest heavily in AI deployments
Friday 13 April 2018Despite AI (artificial intelligence) technologies and applications still at a nascent development stage, global tech giants have rushed to invest heavily in making strategic deployments...
IoV and self-driving cars fuel demand for automotive electronics
Thursday 1 June 2017The growing level of automobile digitalization, especially advances in IoV technologies, is introducing booming opportunities for automotive electronic devices and parts and this...
Intel completes acquisition of Altera
Tuesday 29 December 2015Intel on December 28 announced that it has completed the acquisition of Altera, a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology.
Tsunami of M&A deals underway in 2015 chip industry, says IC Insights
Thursday 30 July 2015In just the first half of 2015 alone, announced semiconductor acquisition agreements had a combined total value of US$72.6 billion, which is nearly 6x the annual average for M&A...
Commentary: TSMC set to see more competition in 2H15
Tuesday 16 June 2015TSMC chairman Morris Chang's remarks over the company and the semiconductor industry's business outlook have long served as a barometer for the capital market. But market response...
Intel could also be TSMC customer, says Chang
Tuesday 9 June 2015TSMC is dedicated to providing foundry services for logic IC providers worldwide, and mergers in the industry will have little impact on the foundry's operations, said company chairman...
Intel to acquire Altera for US$16.7 billion
Tuesday 2 June 2015Intel and Altera have jointly announced a definitive agreement under which Intel would acquire Altera for US$54 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$16.7...
Altera, TSMC develop UBM-free WLCSP packaging
Tuesday 7 April 2015Altera and TSMC have produced an UBM-free (under-bump metallization-free) WLCSP (wafer-level chip scale package) technology for Altera's MAX 10 FPGA products, according to the comp...
IHS comments on Intel potential acquisition of Altera
Monday 30 March 2015A recent Wall Street Journal report quoted unnamed sources as saying that Intel is in talks to buy Altera. IHS has published its research notes on Intel's potential acquisition...
Altera announces availability of next-generation, non-volatile MAX 10 FPGAs
Wednesday 1 October 2014Altera has announced the availability of non-volatile MAX 10 FPGAs, Altera's latest addition to its Generation 10 portfolio. Using TSMC's 55nm embedded flash process technology, MAX...
Altera-TSMC tie-up to bring advanced packaging technology to Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs
Wednesday 23 April 2014Altera and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have signed a cooperation deal that will bring TSMC's patented, fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology to Altera's...
Altera to switch 14nm chip orders back to TSMC, says paper
Wednesday 5 March 2014Altera is expected to have Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) fabricate its next-generation FPGA chips using TSMC's newly implemented 16nm FinFET+ process, instead...
Altera announces quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 for Stratix 10 SoCs
Wednesday 30 October 2013Altera has announced that its Stratix 10 SoC devices, manufactured on Intel's 14nm Tri-Gate process, will incorporate a high-performance, quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor...
Altera incorporates power solutions into FPGAs
Wednesday 23 October 2013Altera has incorporated power solutions into its FPGAs. It has just announced four new reference designs that leverage the power technology obtained through its acquisition of Enpi...
Development of autonomous vehicles involves ethical issues, say experts
Wednesday 16 October 2013Developers of autonomous cars may have to ponder on the ethical implications of letting computer systems take control of the vehicles, some experts have pointed out.
Altera, Micron demo hybrid memory cube interoperability
Thursday 5 September 2013Altera and Micron Technology announced on September 4 that the companies have jointly demonstrated successful interoperability between Altera Stratix V FPGAs and Micron's hybrid memory...
Altera introduces FPGA-Based HSR/PRP reference design targeting smart grid automation equipment
Tuesday 25 June 2013Altera Corporation expanded its FPGA-based solutions targeting smart energy systems by announcing a High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP)...
TSMC, Altera team on 55nm embedded flash process
Tuesday 16 April 2013Programmable logic supplier Altera is working with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on a 55nm embedded flash (EmbFlash) process technology tailored...
Altera Cyclone V GT FPGA is industry first low-power FPGA to achieve compliance for PCIe Gen2 at 5 Gbps
Monday 25 March 2013Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced its 28 nm Cyclone V GT FPGA completed compliance testing with the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification. Available in production today,...
Altera, Xilinx to switch from TSMC CoWoS process to PoP packaging for next-generation chips, says paper
Monday 4 March 2013Altera and Xilinx both have decided to adopt PoP (package on package) packaging technology for its next-generation chips, instead of using chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) process...
With Intel grabbing Altera orders, can we now begin speculating about future Apple hookup?
Wednesday 27 February 2013Since Intel has opened up its fabs to other fabless IC firms, the Silicon Valley giant will pose a threat to TSMC at some point when it comes to high-volume orders, including future...
Altera to use Intel for manufacturing FPGAs
Tuesday 26 February 2013Altera and Intel have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for the future manufacture of Altera FPGAs on Intel's 14nm tri-gate transistor technology.
Altera announces FPGA support for OpenCL
Tuesday 6 November 2012Altera has announced a software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), for use with its FPGA, which combines the parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL...
Altera achieves production rollout of all 28nm FPGA families
Tuesday 23 October 2012Altera recently announced it is shipping in production all three of its 28-nm FPGA families, including Stratix V, Arria V and Cyclone V devices, with the latest shipment of the largest...
Altera first in industry to achieve production rollout of all 28-nm FPGA families
Wednesday 12 September 2012Altera Corporation recently announced it is shipping in production all three of its 28-nm FPGA families, including Stratix V, Arria V and Cyclone V devices. Altera achieves this industry...