International brand ALTERA,ALTERA chip,ALTERA Electronics Components,Altera Corporation was a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015The main product lines from Altera were the flagship Stratix series, mid-range Arria series,[2] and lower-cost Cyclone series system on a chip field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); the MAX series complex programmable logic device and non-volatile FPGAs; Quartus design software;[3][4] and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.