Analyst: Altera to catch Xilinx in 2012

Dylan McGrath, EETimes
3/9/2011 3:42 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO—Altera Corp., the No. 2 player in the programmable logic market, is expected to catch up with market leader Xilinx Inc. in quarterly sales early next year, according to an analyst.

With a portfolio of FPGAs for high-, mid- and low-end markets, Altera (San Jose, Calif.) has set its sights on the application-specific standard product (ASSP) and embedded markets in addition to ASIC market, according to Hans Mosesmann, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates Inc.

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