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Why is Altera so important to Intel?
by Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Jun. 02, 2015 –
Intel plans to buy FPGA company, Altera. If successful, and it is difficult to think of a reason why it shouldn?t, the $17bn deal will be Intel?s largest ever acquisition.
On an Intel scale, Altera is a relatively small company with sales revenues of $2bn in 2014.
Intel is paying a fairly high price for the company. So what has Altera got which Intel seems to prize so highly?
It has world-class programmable logic technology and this could be integrated with Intel?s processors. This would fit well with Intel?s plans for processor markets such as wired and wireless telecommunications infrastructure and data storage.
Altera has a 40% share of the $5bn programmable logic market. It is not market leader that is Xilinx.
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