The official press release, Intel announced the completion of the acquisition of an independent developer programmable gates FPGA and SoC on the ARM - the company Altera. The deal was announced in June 2015. Price of the issue amounted to $ 16.7 billion. This is the largest acquisition of Intel. It is expected that the work as part of Intel Altera will open the way to the most advanced process technology. It is beneficial to provide Altera FPGA-matrix against the background of competing products, for example, the same company Xilinx. But this is only part of the benefit. Another part lies in the fact that Intel and Altera will create new growth points.
According to Intel plans , the integration of FPGA-matrices and other products of Altera products in the server chip giant will significantly expand the list of server hardware and improves its quality. As Intel part , Altera will operate as a division of Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). Headed by his veteran Altera - Dan McNamara. Together with the server of Intel's PSG team will develop integrated server platforms and devices for things to connect to the Internet. The benefits of the merger will be felt in the form of cash receipts in the first half of the year.
It should be noted that, formally completed the acquisition - this is not to integrate the new company. Lapping process can go for years and does not always go as planned . For example, the purchase of mobile unit Infineon Technologies AG in 2010 for $ 1.4 billion., And from the acquisition of McAfee in 2011 for $ 6.59 billion. Intel is getting a lot less of benefits less than expected.