Altera launches his last family of Agilex FPGA 3 Chips to help developers extend the limits of the intelligent edge.
The Agilex 3 FPGA chips are now in production, said Sandra Rivera, CEO of Altera, in a press point. These devices are important to increase intelligence at the edge and allow the proliferation of AI.
Programmable pebble chips on the Altera field (FPGA) are programmable fleas that have found a house in a wide variety of on -board applications, including robotics, factory automation systems and medical equipment. Altera targets its latest FPGA Agilex as well as its Quartus Prime Pro software and the FPGA AI suite on the smart tip market.
It is a big launch for Altera because it is the first as a newly independent company. Altera was originally a flea manufacturing company acquired by Intel in 2015 for $ 16.7 billion and merged the company’s data center unit under the programmable brand Solutions Group (PSG). But Intel has encountered a number of manufacturing challenges and leadership changes.
After almost a year of preparation, Altera was officially out of Intel on January 10, with Longtime Rivera from Intel as CEO.
Agilex 3 FPGAs can provide fabric performance 1.9 times higher compared to the previous generation with a 38%lower power, said Rivera, in a press briefing.
“Since last year, we have really focused on our leadership roadmap and our execution of execution and driving a full portfolio for all segments and customers we support and serve,” said Rivera. “And it really starts with this waterfall strategy that we have for the entire Agilex roadmap that we have introduced on the market. Now we present the last component of this in terms of Agilex roadmap. This is the most limited part limited to the power of the roadmap. »»
A large family
In the top of the range, Altera offers its CIHP Agilex 7 and Agilex 9 for a high calculation density. He has Agilex 5 in the mid -range and now Agilex 3 completes the product range.
The recent Introductions of Agilex 5 and Agilex 3 are lower than the obstacles to entry, increase market participation and simply speed up the innovation rate generally in the programmable logical industry, said Rivera. In the high -end, Agilex 7 and Agilex 9 are adapted to the infrastructure of the data center, networking and communication applications, as well as aerospace sectors with integrated RF and multiple packaging capacity.
“In the mid -range of applications, we have optimized power and performance capacities, and we offer twice better performance by Watt against competition in this very large shift in applications and customers and segments,” said Rivera.
She said that Altera’s programmable solutions meet the strict power, performance and size requirements of integrated and intelligent edge applications. These material solutions, as well as the AI FPGA of Altera, allow automatic learning engineers, software developers and FPGA designers to create personalized IA FPGA platforms using standard industry frames such as Tensorflow and Pytorch,
and development tools such as Openvino and Quartus Prime software.
Rivera said that FPGA Agilex 3 Agilex 3 with low power from Altera are available for the order. The high performance programmable architecture of the FPGA, as well as the integrated AI tensor blocks and the integrated processors, allows companies to quickly modernize their advantage and their integrated infrastructure in deployment of personalized AI solutions which offer low latency, energy efficiency and the agility necessary for the longevity of the system.
In robot control systems, Agilex 3 FPGAs provide real-time control to multi-axis robot arms by merging automatic learning capacities in multi-caps pipelines. And in intelligent factory cameras, the Agilex 3 FPGA improve defect detection using a parallel processing with fine grain and CNNS formed for object recognition in order to analyze large amounts of data.
I asked Rivera if she was concerned about the fact that TSMC was assigned to the possible tariff wars if the trade war poured out to Taiwan, as Donald Trump said before. She noted that since Altera uses both TSMC and Intel Foundry (the manufacturing arm of the Intel contract), it is protected from these concerns. Intel has many flea factories in the United States, and TSMC also manufactures fleas in the United States now. And projects related to the defense of Altera in particular also require interior production and which will not be affected.
How FPGAs are used in the field
For developers and customers, this means that Alte will bring a more intelligent calculation on industrial and integrated markets. This means that the intelligence of AI can spread far in daily edge devices, where more computer can be carried out in a profitable and networked manner.
Devices can stimulate applications, including industry, automotive and defense users. It can help drones to be deployed with more integrated intelligence, for example. It also allows the transparent integration of sensors and robotics actuators in intelligent factories. These robots require precise engine control algorithms to effectively operate on factory floors.
“An FPGA will be widely used in these environments because it can adapt to several operations in parallel and effectively manage this continuous flow of data flows,” said Rivera. “So, by taking advantage of an FPGA which, in many cases, is already there and designed in the system, we see our integrated developers merging automatic learning capacities in their support pipeline or their pipeline of sensors to incorporate AI algorithms into robotics on the edge.”
FPGAs are also used in endoscopy and MRI machines in the medical fields. And they can provide greater calculation power and efficiency to the processing of Lidar sensor data in autonomous cars. And as the chips are reprogrammable in the field, they can be updated in the air to adjust the evolution of standards, algorithms or capacities. This makes future proof of conceptions, said Rivera.
Production loan
Customers can place orders now for agilex 3 production devices, development kits, selected partner advice and system modules on modules.
The first wave of Agilex 5 FPGAS E-SERIES devices is now fully qualified and published for high volume production. Compared to the FPGA of the Agilex 5 D series, the FPGAs of the E Agilex 5 series are optimized for applications more sensitive to power which require high performance with smaller factors and logical densities. Agilex 5 e-series FPGA, with an infused fabric of AI, bring high levels of integration and improved IT capacities for intelligent ons, including video, industry, robotics and medical
Systems.
In a continuous effort to improve its optimized product portfolio, Altera widens the Max 10 FPGA family with new package options. Max 10m40 and 10m50 products ranges are now offered in variable BGA Pitch packages. This new package option considerably increases the value of these highly integrated devices by reducing the form factor while maintaining a high number of EDI, resulting in a total lower cost of possession for users. Customers can place orders now for FPGA Max 10 engineering samples in the VPBGA-610 package, with production silicon available in the third quarter of 2025.
“With today’s announcements, we continue to expand our programmable leadership portfolio by offering an even wider range of end -to -end solutions built on decades of expertise and a strong ecosystem of partners,” said Rivera. “With our latest FPGA products and development tools, we provide integrated developers with a transparent approach to provide high -performance and high -quality intelligent onset solutions for the AI era.”
Altera presents its latest innovations and FPGA development tools in the integrated world 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.
