A Fable:

Once upon a time, in the incredibly wealthy Kingdom of Silicon, there lived a scrappy company named Duchess Altera, who shared the Duchy of FPGAs with an archrival named Duchess Xilinx. For more than three decades, Duchess Altera and Duchess Xilinx battled for control of the Duchy of FPGAs. Then, Duchess Altera forged an alliance with Archduke Intel, who ruled the much larger and much richer Grand Duchy of Microprocessors. Sometime later, Duchess Xilinx joined the House of Zen, which competed with Archduke Intel in the Grand Duchy … Read More → "FPGA maker Intel PSG spins out of Intel and adopts old name: Altera"

The FPGA supplier known as Intel PSG (the Programmable Systems Group, formerly named Altera) will be announcing its new name and mission on February 29 – the leap day of a leap month of a leap year – because it’s being billed as a leap forward for the company. Get it? Consequently, I thought this would be a good time to document the early history of Altera from its beginnings, because no one seems to have written it down and because there seem to be a lot of inaccurate histories floating around on the Web. Before you read this … Read More → "Altera: The Once and Future FPGA Supplier, Part 2"