Altera

Altera Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryIntegrated circuits
FoundedJune 1983 (1983-06)
Founders
Robert Hartmann,
Paul Newhagen,
James Sansbury, Michael Magranet
HeadquartersSan Jose, California, United States
Key people
Raghib Hussain (CEO)
ProductsFPGAs,
CPLDs,
Embedded systems,
ASICs
Revenue $1.932 billion (2014)
$472 million (2014)
Total assets $5.674 billion (2014)
Total equity $3.285 billion (2014)
Number of employees
3,091 (2014)
ParentSilver Lake (51%)
Intel (49%)
Websitealtera.com
Footnotes / references

Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015 before becoming independent once again in 2025 as a company focused on development of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology and system on a chip FPGAs.