Intel Bought Altera for $16.7 Billion. Now the Chipmaker Is Heading Back to Wall Street.
ABE NEWS | September 15, 2026 Eleven years ago, Intel spent approximately $16.7 billion buying Altera in one of the biggest semiconductor acquisitions of its era. The deal was supposed to give Intel a stronger position in programmable chips and bring another major technology business inside a company that was still one of the…