How Intel’s acquisition of Altera could transform IoT and the data centre

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

After a relatively quiet transaction that began on June 1 2015, in December Intel officially acquired the Altera Corporation and reformed it as an internal department dubbed “Intel Programmable Solutions Group.” This acquisition represents a crucial step in the industry-wide transition towards data centre architectures that allow faster processing and lower latency.

Altera’s Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide a critical building block in the link between data intake and the rapid, efficient processing demanded by virtualisation, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) sensor arrays and other computing-intensive use cases. Bringing on the Altera team internally means that Intel can now develop sophisticated processing architectures and ICs that embed FPGA capability within to unlock powerful parallel processing capabilities…

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