Corporate Releases

May 14, 2013

Altera to Deliver Breakthrough Power Solutions for FPGAs with Acquisition of Power Technology Innovator Enpirion

Altera today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Enpirion, Inc., the industry’s leading provider of high-efficiency, integrated power conversion products known as PowerSoCs (power system-on-chip). The combination of Altera’s FPGAs with Enpirion’s PowerSoCs will offer customers higher performance, lower system power, higher reliability, smaller footprint and faster time-to-market.  (more)

April 15, 2013

Altera and AppliedMicro will Cooperate on Joint Solutions for High Growth Data Center Market

Altera and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, today announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding designed to result in the joint development and marketing of optimized solutions for data center applications. The strategic cooperation initiative will enable the two companies to combine advanced Altera FPGAs with silicon solutions from AppliedMicro, including the company’s full line of connectivity and ARM® 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip products. (more)

April 15, 2013

Altera Expands OTN Solution Capabilities with Acquisition of TPACK

Altera today announced it has agreed to acquire TPACK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. TPACK delivers complete FPGA-based OTN products targeting packet and optical networking equipment suppliers. The acquisition enables Altera to accelerate and expand its OTN solutions roadmapto support the increasing pipeline of customer designs resulting from Altera’s successful acquisition in 2010 of Avalon Microelectronics, a leading OTN IP provider. (more)

February 25, 2013

Altera to Build Next-Generation, High-Performance FPGAs on Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate Technology

Altera and Intel Corporation today announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for the future manufacture of Altera FPGAs on Intel’s 14 nm tri-gate transistor technology. These next-generation products, which target ultra high-performance systems for military, wireline communications, cloud networking, and compute and storage applications, will enable breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies not otherwise possible.  (more)

February 25, 2013

Altera and TSMC Continue Long-Term Partnership

Altera Corporation and TSMC today reaffirmed their commitment to a long-term partnership to set new milestones in FPGA innovation. TSMC is Altera’s primary foundry, supplying a wide array of processes to fulfill Altera’s product portfolio, including soon-to-be released 20 nm products, existing mainstream products, and long-lived legacy components. (more)