Altera was founded in 1983 by semiconductor veterans Rodney Smith, Robert Hartmann, James Sansbury, and Paul Newhagen with $500,000 in seed money. On December 28, 2015, Altera was acquired by Intel. The main product lines from Altera were the Stratix, mid-range Arria, and lower-cost Cyclone series system on a chip FPGAs, the MAX series complex programmable logic device and non-volatile FPGAs, Intel Quartus Prime design software, and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions. Altera strongly encourages its customers to purchase all Altera semiconductor products through Altera’s authorized sources: either directly from Intel or through a Altera-authorized distributor...