Altera
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 Altera headquarters in San Jose, California in 2026 | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: ALTR (until 2015) | |
| Industry | Integrated circuits |
| Founded | June 1983 |
| Founders | Robert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, Michael Magranet |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Key people | Raghib Hussain (CEO) |
| Products | FPGAs, 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) |
| Parent | Silver Lake (51%) Intel (49%) |
| Website | altera |
| Footnotes | |
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 company majority-owned by private equity firm Silver Lake.