Almost a year after Intel announced that it was going to create an independent subsidiary with its programmable FPGA chip division Altera, the company has confirmed that it already works independently. Of course, it still maintains a strategic collaboration agreement with Intel as its subsidiary, but by being independent it will have more flexibility to work with other companies with production lines from now on.
In its beginnings, Altera was a chip manufacturing company, which Intel bought in 2015 for $16.7 billion, and which after the closing of the operation was integrated into its data center division. Specifically, in the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG).
Altera, as an independent company, will be dedicated to commercializing reconfigurable chips for the data center systems, cloud computing, industrial and automotive markets. Its CEO will be Sandra Riveraformer head of Intel’s data center and AI (DCAI) entity.
Altera is not going to be the only one subsidiary that Intel creates with its different areas of products. The next to become an independent company will be RealSenseits AI computer vision camera area. As confirmed by the company in an interview with The Robot Report, the company’s new spinoff will launch in the middle of this year 2025, as part of the strategy so that the division can expand within its possibilities.
From the company they point out that «After 10 years of incubation, Intel will unleash the potential of the Intel RealSense AI-powered computer vision product portfolio by transforming it into an independent subsidiary company in the first half of 2025.«. The company is also committed to a smooth transition for customers, and will continue to offer support throughout the process.
RealSense was born in 2013 from Intel’s Perpetual Computing division, and rebranded the following year. Intel attempted to make RealSense cameras part of its PS platform in the middle of the second decade of this century, but was unsuccessful and focused on dedicating them to sector applications.
Currently, RealSense develops AI computer vision devicessuch as depth cameras, biometric tools, robotic solutions and healthcare metrics. The new independent company already has plans to expand its activity into stereo vision, robotics, and AI software and hardware. Its cameras are already used in sectors such as robotics and automation.
