Altera Corporation operates in the Semiconductors and related devices sector. Altera Corporation is a semiconductor company. Altera designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs), HardCopy application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), intellectual property (IP) cores and development software. The Company's PLDs consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), which are semiconductor integrated circuits, or chips, that its customers program to perform logic functions in their electronic systems. Its HardCopy ASICs enables its customer to transition designs from FPGAs to non-programmable implementations. Altera's IP cores are pre-defined design building blocks that can be licensed by customers to add functions to their PLD designs. The development software, which operates on personal computers and engineering workstations, is used by customers to develop, compile and verify their designs, and then program their designs into its PLDs. In our complete report available for purchase the company is compared to: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunpower Corporation and MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc..