SCALING UP: Intel's biggest acquisition ever will let the Santa Clara, California company offer twice the computing power when its Xeon processors used in servers are combined with Altera's programmable chips.
BANGALORE/SEATTLE: Intel Corp's US$17bil (RM62.81bil) purchase of programmable chip maker Altera Corp is a costly defensive move to ward off rivals in the prized datacentre business it dominates, analysts said.
Intel's biggest acquisition ever will let the Santa Clara, California company offer twice the computing power when its Xeon processors used in servers are combined with Altera's programmable chips.
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