Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic integrated circuits, systems for switching off semiconductor systems. The company quickly and cost-effectively introduces innovations, differentiates and takes leading positions in the market.

The corporation is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the abbreviation ALTR, and is also included in the S&P 500 stock price index. As an enterprise without personal production assets, Altera specializes mainly in the development of modules and circuits based on the hardware description languages Verilog, VHDL, and AHDL. Altera is a partner of many manufacturers in the field of chip manufacturing.

Altera's main products are programmable chips, as well as providing services for converting projects for programmable logic integrated circuits into ASICs for mass production. The corporation also develops embedded software for FPGAs, as well as compilers for the processor core of its own development.