Today at Embedded World, Altera Corporation unveiled its latest programmable solutions tailored for embedded developers who are pushing the boundaries of innovation at the intelligent edge. Altera's latest Agilex FPGAs, Quartus Prime Pro software, and FPGA AI Suite enable the rapid development of highly customized embedded systems deployed across a broad range of edge applications, including robotics, factory automation systems, and medical equipment.

Altera's programmable solutions meet the stringent power, performance and size requirements of embedded and intelligent edge applications. These hardware solutions, along with Altera's FPGA AI Suite, enable machine learning engineers, software developers, and FPGA designers to create custom FPGA AI platforms using industry-standard frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, and development tools such as OpenVINO and Quartus Prime software.

Today's announcements include:

Altera's low-power, cost-optimized Agilex 3 FPGAs are available for ordering: Agilex 3 FPGAs bring high-performance capabilities to low-power, cost-optimized applications, delivering up to 1.9x higher fabric performance compared to the previous generation at up to 38% lower power. The FPGA's high-performance programmable architecture, along with built-in AI Tensor blocks and embedded processors, enables businesses to rapidly modernize their edge and embedded infrastructure by deploying customized AI solutions that deliver the low latency, energy efficiency and agility needed for system longevity.

In robot control systems, Agilex 3 FPGAs bring real-time control to multi-axis robot arms by fusing machine learning capabilities into multi-sensor pipelines. And in smart factory cameras, Agilex 3 FPGAs improve defect detection by using fine-grained parallel processing and CNNs trained for object recognition to analyze vast amounts of data.

Customers can place orders now for production-quality Agilex 3 devices, development kits, selected partner boards and system-on-modules.

Altera shipping Agilex 5 E-Series FPGAs in production: The first wave of Agilex 5 FPGAs E-Series devices are now fully qualified and released for high-volume production. Compared to the Agilex 5 D-Series FPGAs, the Agilex 5 E-Series FPGAs are optimized for more power-sensitive applications that require high-performance with smaller form factors and logic densities. Agilex 5 E-Series FPGAs, with AI-infused fabric, bring high levels of integration and improved computing capabilities for intelligent edge applications, including video, industrial, robotics, and medical systems.

Altera expanding MAX 10 FPGA with high I/O density packages: In a continued effort to enhance its cost-optimized product portfolio, Altera is expanding the MAX 10 FPGA family with new package options. The MAX 10 10M40 and 10M50 product lines are now offered in variable pitch BGA packages. This new package option significantly increases the value of these highly integrated devices by reducing form factor while maintaining a high IO count, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for users. Customers can place orders now for engineering samples of MAX 10 FPGAs in the variable pitch BGA package, with production silicon available in Q3 2025.

Software and Ecosystem Support

Support for Agilex 3, Agilex 5 E-Series, and MAX 10 FPGAs is available through a no-cost Quartus software license. For AI developers, Altera's FPGA AI Suite release 25.1 supports Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGA development for AI inference using familiar industry-standard frameworks (TensorFlow and PyTorch).

Altera provides users the resources needed for seamless FPGA development from its extensive network of partners. Through the Altera Solution Acceleration Partner (ASAP) Program, Altera helps users accelerate their FPGA AI development process and get to market faster.

"With today's announcements, we continue to expand our leadership programmable portfolio by offering an even broader range of end-to-end solutions built on decades of expertise and a strong ecosystem of partners," said Sandra Rivera, Altera CEO. "With our latest FPGA products and development tools, we provide embedded developers a seamless approach to deliver high-performing and high-quality intelligent edge solutions for the era of AI."