Founded in 1983 and headquartered in California, Altera Corporation is a company that designs, produces, and sells high-performance, high-density programmable logic devices (PLDs) and corresponding development tools. Since the establishment of the company, Altera has maintained its position in the same industry: in 1984, Altera launched the EP300 series, the world's first easy-to-erase programmable logic device, and became the world's first PLD device supplier. A PC-based development system. At present, Altera has more than 500 kinds of PLD devices in various packages, which can meet the different needs of users. While providing devices, Altera can also provide its users with a complete development system and good after-sales support services. For example, Altera's MAX+PLUSII software integrates software editing, debugging, and device programming, and is a development system in the field of programmable devices. The company's ASSESS program can provide users with all the seller product information that supports Altera's devices, and optimizes the development environment of MAX+PLUSII.

Intel announced that it will acquire programmable logic chip giant Altera for about $16.7 billion (about 100 billion yuan) in cash.