10 Teraflops per FGPA chip and 100 GFlops per watt

Altera Corporation is a pioneer of programmable logic solutions and enabling systems. They are a leader with FPGAs.

The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device that can be programmed after manufacturing. Instead of being restricted to any predetermined hardware function, an FPGA allows you to program product features and functions, adapt to new standards, and reconfigure hardware for specific applications even after the product has been installed in the field—hence the name “field-programmable”. You can use an FPGA to implement any logical function that an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) could perform, but the ability to update the functionality after shipping offers advantages for many applications.

Altera has the Industry’s Highest Performance FPGAs and SoCs

Ground breaking HyperFlex architecture
2x the core performance of prior generation high-performance FPGAs
Over 10 TeraFLOPs of single-precision floating-point DSP performance
over 4x processor data throughput of prior-generation SoCs

Stratix 10 FPGAs offer the most power-efficient technologies

* 70% lower power than prior generation high-end FPGAs and SoCs
* 100 GFlops per Watt of single-precision floating point efficiency

In theory, 10 thousand Stratix FPGA chips could provide 1 petaflop of peak performance using only 10 kilowatts of power.

Altera applies trigate transistor technology to FPGAs.

In February 2013, Altera and Intel Corporation jointly announced that the next generation of Altera’s highest performance FPGA products would be produced using Intel’s 14 nm 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology exclusively. This makes Altera the exclusive major FPGA provider of the most advanced, highest performance semiconductor technology available.

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