Altera just announced today that they’ve set an industry milestone in semiconductor technology by delivering the most transistors ever on an integrated circuit. Altera’s 28-nm Stratix® V FPGAs are the industry’s first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors.

“Altera surpassed the known record for transistors when it taped out Stratix V FPGAs at the end of 2010,” said Bradley Howe, vice president of IC engineering at Altera. “Maintaining the rapid pace set by Moore’s Law has allowed programmable logic to remain at the forefront of driving innovations in semiconductor technology. Achieving milestones like this continue to propel FPGAs to new heights of capacity and performance while delivering significantly higher levels of integration.”

Stratix V FPGAs are built for bandwidth