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5B+
Devices
Shipped Globally
40+
Years
of Programmable Innovation
2045
Designed
For Long Lifecycles
27+
Years
of Continuous Quartus Development
Why Leading Innovators Choose Altera
AI, networking, industrial, and embedded systems are being redesigned around one requirement: the ability to change after deployment. Workloads evolve, standards shift, and security threats grow — often faster than fixed architectures can keep pace.
Meeting that pace takes adaptable computing, long product lifecycles, and a technology partner you can build on for the life of a program. As the world’s largest independent, pure-play FPGA company, Altera pairs the scale of an industry leader with the focus of a specialist. Four things set us apart.
Focus and Scale
As an independent, pure-play FPGA solutions provider, Altera delivers the focused innovation, deep expertise, and long-term partnership customers need to build intelligent, secure systems that can adapt and evolve with changing market demands.
One Scalable Platform for Every Class of Design
Altera’s end-to-end FPGA and SoC FPGA portfolio gives customers the flexibility to scale from cost-optimized embedded designs to infrastructure-class and mission-critical systems using a unified platform, software environment, and ecosystem across every major market.
Agilex Family
Software That Supercharges the Silicon
Quartus® Prime and the FPGA AI Suite give teams a complete design environment — with AI-enabled flows that map spatial algorithms directly onto Agilex™ silicon and push-button inference generation from pretrained models. Free license tiers are available for select families.
Physical AI with Altera
Physical AI has to sense, think, and act in the real world, in real time, and it depends on fast, reliable data to do it. Altera FPGAs bring real-time sensor fusion, data movement, and deterministic control to robotics, machine vision, and autonomous systems, keeping performance, latency, and power in balance as AI moves into the physical world.
Built for Decades. Ready for What’s Next.
Altera’s long-life-cycle hardware platforms and supply longevity commitments help customers build intelligent systems with the reliability and adaptability needed for deployments that last for decades.
The Altera Advantage
| Why It Matters | The Altera Advantage |
|---|---|
| Industry Leadership | World’s largest independent, pure-play FPGA company |
| Product Breadth | Complete FPGA portfolio on one scalable architecture |
| AI Readiness | Adaptable compute across heterogeneous architectures |
| Supply Assurance | Manufacturing flexibility and certified quality processes |
| Product Longevity | Long lifecycles and roadmap stability; 2045 for select families |
| Ecosystem | Software, IP, partners, and development tools |
| Customer Success | Global support and deep engineering expertise |
Trusted Across Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Explore aerospace FPGA design examples for Direct RF, channelization and synchronized data paths, with tools and resources for hardware evaluation.
Broadcast and Pro AV Solutions | Altera FPGA Video Processing
Explore broadcast and Pro AV FPGAs for SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 and IPMX video workflows, with processing IP and resources for low-latency system designs.
FPGA Solutions for Data Centers | Altera
Explore data center FPGAs for AI NICs, storage offload and platform management, with memory, networking and development resources for cloud systems.
Medical AI and Healthcare Solutions with FPGAs | Altera
Explore medical FPGAs for imaging, real-time signal processing and edge AI, with video, DSP and development resources for healthcare system design.
Industrial FPGAs for Smart Manufacturing and Automation
Explore industrial FPGAs for deterministic control, industrial Ethernet and factory automation, with reference designs for vision and motor systems.
Test and Measurement
Explore FPGA test and measurement for ATE, RF instruments and protocol analyzers, with flexible I/O and design resources for high-speed acquisition.
Transportation
Explore transportation FPGAs for sensor processing, software-defined vehicle gateways and control, with resources for adaptable automotive system design.
Wireless and Commercial Satcom
Explore wireless and satcom FPGAs for O-RAN radios, massive MIMO and evolving 6G designs, with reference platforms and IP for communications development.
Wireline
Explore wireline FPGAs for OTN, FlexE, private line emulation and PON access, with networking IP and reference resources for adaptable transport systems.
Partner Ecosystem
An Ecosystem Built Around Customer Success
Through the Altera Solutions Alliance Program (ASAP), customers reach a global network of validated partners, reference designs, and ready-to-use solutions — spanning technology, IP, cloud, distribution, and design-service partners.