Altera reveals next-gen Agilex 3 FPGAs

Altera revealed new details on its next-generation, power- and cost-optimized Agilex 3 FPGAs and announced new development kits and software support for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. “Working closely with our ecosystem and distribution partners, Altera remains committed to delivering FPGA-based solutions that empower innovators with leading-edge programmable technologies that are easy to design and deploy. With these key announcements, we continue to execute on our vision of shaping the future by using programmable logic to help customers unlock greater value across a broad range of use cases within the data center, aerospace and defense sectors, communications infrastructure, automotive, industrial, test, medical and embedded markets.” said Sandra Rivera, CEO of Altera. Altera said it is the only independent FPGA supplier with full-stack solutions that are optimized across high-performance accelerated computing systems, next-generation communications infrastructure and intelligent edge applications. The company’s comprehensive FPGA portfolio provides customers with flexible hardware that rapidly adapts to changing market requirements driven by the era of intelligent compute. Altera is leading the industry’s use of FPGAs in AI inference workloads with Agilex FPGAs infused with AI Tensor Blocks and the Altera FPGA AI Suite, which accelerates FPGA development for AI inference using p...