Altera Announces Aligex 3, Agilex 5 E Volume Availability, MAX 10 IO Expansion at Embedded World
Volume ordering is open on the low-power Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 E parts, while expanded MAX 10 chips are due in the third quarter.
Altera has taken the opportunity of Embedded World 2025 to showcase its latest field-programmable gate array (FPGA) parts — announcing that its low-power low-cost Agilex 3 chips are now available to order, its Agilex 5 E-series has entered volume production, and it is expanding its MAX 10 range.
"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," claims Altera's chief executive officer Sandra Rivera of the company's latest launches. "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."
Among Altera's announcements at Embedded World this week was the opening of order books for the Agilex 3 FPGA family — designed to bring the company's high-performance technology to a low-power "cost-optimized" target market. These, the company claims, deliver up to a 1.9× improvement in fabric performance at up to 38 per cent less power, compared to Altera's previous-generation parts. This, it says, makes them ideal for on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence applications — while also positioning them as perfect for robotic control systems.
The company has also announced that it is now shipping its Agilex 5 E series in volume, too. These are designed, again, as a more power-efficient alternative to the existing Agilex 5 D-series range, and come with what the company calls an "AI-infused fabric" for highly-integrated computational capabilities targeting the "intelligent edge," including video systems, industrial control, robotics, and medical equipment.
Altera further announced that it is expanding its MAX 10 FPGA family, offering increased input/output (IO) density options in the MAX 10 10M40 and 10M50 parts by switching to a ball-grid array (BGA) packaging option. "This new package option significantly increases the value of these highly integrated devices," the company claims, "by reducing form factor while maintaining a high IO count, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for users." Engineering samples can be ordered now, with production expected in the third quarter.
Interested parties can find more on Altera's FPGA line-up on the company's website, or by visiting it at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week at Hall 5 Booth 343 where the company has live demos of Aligex 7-powered 8K video and vision processing systems, Agilex 5 SoC-powered ROS 2 robotic control, and low-latency defect detection and object recognition powered by the MAX 10 family.