Altera

It's been a while since we've done any.

We do a lot of Altera and I think they got bought by Altera, their competitor.

But those are some big BGAs, but I don't think we've done much NVIDIA stuff.

I don't think so anyway.

It's sort of like a silent player and it's hanging out there.

And yeah, I think it also competes with Altera, which was spun out from Intel.

So maybe it stays as standalone or eventually gets acquired.

You'll see some consolidation at some point in the industry of these smaller players.

It has less seating and way fewer food options than the one it replaced.

Any ideas why Altera went in that direction? The decision seems pretty baffling to most of us on the ground here, but I'm sure we don't have the full story.

I don't have the full story either, and I don't have a good answer for you.

I will say that Crystal has been subject to a lot of leadership turnover in the past...

Well, since Altera acquired it, really.

And that's never, in my opinion, good for a ski area.

I think it would have been better off for Crystal.

It had Boeing retained control over it.

So may say, "Yes, we'll do this deal," but will it actually produce chips anytime soon?

Yeah, and we've seen Intel move higher on this notion that it's also gonna spin out Altera.

So it's sort of got a couple things going on in terms of the move that we've seen recently.

There, uh, Altera, but every time there's anything with Intel, there seems to be a stock pop, right? Where TSMC was gonna be involved in a joint-

Yeah

... venture with Nvidia, AMD.

You know, you'd like to have your vacancy rate you know, in the 10% range, not in the 40% range.

Earlier this month, Denver celebrated Altera moving into the old Denver Post building with a press conference with the mayor and governor.

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We've got news from Amazon, AT&T, Arista, Altera, and even some companies that don't begin with the letter A-

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... like Backbox, Cisco, and Inflection.

Yeah, appreciate that.

Uh, moving on, but there's a quantum angle here, too.

Um, what we're talking about, uh, FPGA maker Altera, uh, first the company recently announced support for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms on its Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGAs and SoCs.

The company says these FPGAs now support secure boot using PQC algorithms.