Highlights from Altera at Innovators Day 2025 included a 2.5× density boost in Agilex 5 D-Series devices, faster DDR5/LPDDR5 memory interfaces, and the introduction of Visual Designer Studio in Quartus Prime v25.3 to streamline design integration. Altera revealed significant updates to its Agilex FPGA portfolio and design tools.

This white paper presents a detailed comparison between Altera’s Agilex™ 3 FPGAs and competitive power and cost optimized FPGAs, highlighting Agilex 3’s performance, power efficiency, and architectural advantages for embedded systems.

Intel this week announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of Altera to Silver Lake, a private equity firm that's been involved in Dell, AirBnB, and many other technology deals for more than 15 years. But what does it mean?

Altera Corporation is now distributing its Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series, showcasing support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory enhancements. The series is ideal for applications requiring high memory needs including AI, data centers, firewalls, 5G, and 8K enabled components. Agilex 7 FPGA M-Series delivers reliable logic while reducing memory challenges such as latency.

Altera, an Intel Company, disclosed various FPGA hardware, software, and developmental tools that simplify accessibility across a broad range of use cases. During its annual developer’s conference, Altera discussed new information on its next-generation, power- and cost-optimized Agilex 3 FPGAs and revealed new development kits and software support for its Agilex 5 FPGAs.