Hong Kong, March 26, 2014 – Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced that it has joined the IBM OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development alliance based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture. Altera will collaborate with IBM and OpenPOWER Foundation members to develop high-performance computing solutions that combine IBM POWER CPU with Altera's FPGA-based acceleration technology for next-generation data centers.

FPGAs provide POWER users with configurable hardware accelerators integrated into core computing systems, enabling system designers to achieve extremely high performance with lower power consumption, thereby reducing operational costs. IBM and Altera are already collaborating to develop a coherent interface between the POWER8 processor and Altera's Stratix® V FPGA. Through this collaboration, a roadmap has been provided to developers to leverage the high performance of Altera's Arria® 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs in next-generation POWER-based systems. Using Altera SDK for OpenCL, developers can integrate IBM Power CPU and Altera FPGA as high-performance computing solutions.

Jeff Waters, Senior Vice President of Altera's Military, Industrial, and Computing Division, stated, "The OpenPOWER Foundation will greatly accelerate the pace of innovation by providing developers with an extended open technology set to deploy next-generation big data and cloud computing applications. Through collaboration with IBM and OpenPOWER Foundation members, we can more rapidly expand the use of FPGAs across diverse types of high-performance computing applications."

The OpenPOWER Foundation brings together leading industry players to develop high-performance computing solutions based on IBM POWER architecture. OpenPOWER Foundation members include Altera, IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, Suzhou PowerCore Technology, and Tyan. Through their collaboration, these members are developing advanced server, networking, storage, and hardware acceleration technologies with the goal of providing next-generation hyperscale and cloud data center developers with broader choices and superior control and flexibility. More detailed information about the OpenPOWER Foundation can be found at www.ibm.com.

Bradley McCredie, IBM Fellow, stated, "We are very pleased that Altera is collaborating with us for IBM POWER architecture development by providing OpenCL and powerful FPGAs available to the OpenPOWER development community. This enables the development of diverse types of customized server, networking, and storage hardware leveraging Altera's FPGAs for future data centers and cloud computing."