Altera launches Agilex 3 FPGAs for the intelligent edge

Altera is launching its latest family of Agilex FPGA 3 chips to help developers expand the boundaries of the intelligent edge. The Agilex 3 FPGA chips are now in production, said Sandra Rivera, CEO of Altera, in a press briefing. These devices are important for increasing intelligence at the edge and enabling AI proliferation. Altera’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips are programmable chips that have found a home in a wide variety of edge applications, including robotics, factory automation systems and medical equipment. Altera is targeting its latest Agilex FPGAs as well as its Quartus Prime Pro software, and FPGA AI Suite at the intelligent edge market. It’s a big launch for Altera as it’s the first as a newly independent company. Altera was originally a chip manufacturing company that was acquired by Intel in 2015 for $16.7 billion and merged into the company’s data center unit under the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) brand. But Intel ran into a number of manufactur ... Read full article.