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Altera: History, Companies, Art & Technology

Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California, with a primary focus on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology and system-on-a-chip (SoC) FPGAs. Founded in 1983, it was acquired by Intel in 2015, re-established under the Altera name in 2024, and in 2025 became a privately held…

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Altera topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies, Art and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around Altera.

Related topics
31
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
87
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Products · 16 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Intel partnership, acquisition and ownership · 4 topics
Early history · 3 topics
Restatement of financial results · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
June 1983; 43 years ago (1983-06)
Founders
Robert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet
Industry
Integrated circuits
Headquarters
San Jose, California, United States
Key people
Raghib Hussain (CEO)
Net income
$472 million (2014)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early history

Products

Intel partnership, acquisition and ownership

Restatement of financial results

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Altera connects Entity context

The extracted context around Altera shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Altera → Altera's FPGA, ARM, As, Beginning, Cortex-A9, Cyclone, December, FDSOI, FPGA, FPGAs, SoC, SoCs, These, With Another extracted example is Altera → In December, In February, In October, Intel, Intel's, IPO, January, Programmable Solutions Group, PSG. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Altera

Top relations

related to System on a chip FPGAs · 14
Altera → Altera's FPGA, ARM, As, Beginning, Cortex-A9, Cyclone, December, FDSOI, FPGA, FPGAs, SoC, SoCs, These, With
related to Acquisition and ownership by Intel · 9
Altera → In December, In February, In October, Intel, Intel's, IPO, January, Programmable Solutions Group, PSG
related to Design software · 9
Altera → All, Altera's, CPLDs, FPGAs, In May, OpenCL, Quartus Prime, SDK, SoC FPGAs
related to history · 9
Altera → CEO, In, IPO, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet, Paul Newhagen, Robert Hartmann, Rodney Smith, The
related to FPGAs · 7
Altera → Agilex FPGA, Arria, Cyclone, FPGAs, MAX, Stratix, The
related to Intel 14-nm technology · 6
Altera → Altera's, FPGAs, In February, Intel's, The Stratix, TSMC
related to Soft Processor cores · 6
Altera → ARM Cortex-M1, Freescale ColdFire, Nios, Nios II, Previously Altera, RISC-V
related to Restatement of financial results · 5
Altera → Exchange Commission, Intel, On June, Securities, The
related to Semiconductor intellectual property cores · 4
Altera → Designpro, In, IP, Northwest Logic
related to PLD technology licensing partnership · 3
Altera → In, Intel, PLD

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

intel fpgas company processor soc system devices chip arm announced based 2025 silver lake product hard logic fpga cores design

Altera relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 87 structured relationships around Altera. Examples in this analysis include Altera → Founded → June 1983; 43 years ago (1983-06) and Altera → Founders → Robert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AlteraFoundedJune 1983; 43 years ago (1983-06)1.00infobox
AlteraFoundersRobert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet1.00infobox
AlteraHeadquartersSan Jose, California, United States1.00infobox
AlteraIndustryIntegrated circuits1.00infobox
AlteraKey peopleRaghib Hussain (CEO)1.00infobox
AlteraNet income$472 million (2014)1.00infobox
AlteraNumber of employees3,091 (2014)1.00infobox
AlteraParentSilver Lake (51%) Intel (49%)1.00infobox
AlteraProductsFPGAs, CPLDs, Embedded systems, ASICs1.00infobox
AlteraRevenue$1.932 billion (2014)1.00infobox
AlteraTotal assets$5.674 billion (2014)1.00infobox
AlteraTotal equity$3.285 billion (2014)1.00infobox
AlteraTraded asNasdaq: ALTR (until 2015)1.00infobox
AlteraTypePrivate1.00infobox
AlteraWebsitealtera.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Altera bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Intel, Acquired and Became. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Altera
    • Intel
    • Acquired
    • Became
    • Company
    • Cores
    • Lake
    • Silver
    • Announced
    • Fpgas
    • Soft
    • Programmable
    • Technology
  • altera
    • Intel
    • Acquired
    • Became
    • Company
    • Cores
    • Lake
    • Silver
    • Announced
    • Fpgas
    • Soft
    • Programmable
    • Technology
  • public company
    • Intel
    • Announced
    • Financial
    • Name
    • Lake
    • Silver
    • Founded
    • Equity
    • Ipo
    • Private
    • Technology
    • Chip
  • programmable logic devices
    • Programmable
    • Fpga
    • Soc
    • Technology
    • Devices
    • Logic
    • Arm
    • Chip
    • Software
    • System
    • Fpgas
    • Processor
  • intel
    • Lake
    • Silver
    • Announced
    • Private
    • Ipo
    • Name
    • Technology
    • Semiconductor
    • Financial
    • Soft
    • Software
    • Programmable
  • semiconductor intellectual property cores
    • Design
    • Semiconductor
    • Soft
    • Software
    • System
    • Technology
    • Founded
    • Silver
    • Processor
    • Equity
    • Financial
    • Private
  • intel partnership, acquisition and ownership
    • Lake
    • Silver
    • Announced
    • Private
    • Ipo
    • Name
    • Technology
    • Semiconductor
    • Financial
    • Soft
    • Software
    • Programmable
  • silver lake
    • Silver
    • Private
    • Announced
    • Semiconductor
    • Financial
    • Ipo
    • Name
    • Soft
    • Software
    • Technology
    • Cores
    • Design

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Altera, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Altera with Products. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
AlteraProducts · splits 20 ⟂ 17
AlteraOverview · splits 31 ⟂ 6
AlteraIntel partnership, acquisition and ownership · splits 32 ⟂ 5
AlteraEarly history · splits 33 ⟂ 4
AlteraRestatement of financial results · splits 33 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Altera

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples87
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Altera to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies, Art & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Altera · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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