Buy Altera? Not freaking likely!
The elephant in the room here is that many companies across the world used Altera. Then Intel bought Altera... COVID happened... And you couldn't buy them at any price. Still can't.
Intel apparently never reserved the fab capacity to fulfill their existing part commitments. Those of us who spent millions on IP wrapped around the MAX V, MAX 10 FPGA were and remain screwed. About 12 to 18 months ago, while we were all redesigning our kit to use Xilinx in place of the Intel parts... We were waiting for word from Intel that MAX and Arria were going back into fab. But instead what we got was bumf about "AI FPGA". WTF? Useful as an air horn on a chicken.
Altera is (re)starting out behind the curve. Engineers and companies worldwide are still irritated at getting absolutely screwed. And having just spent loads of NRE on tooling, training, setting up supply chain, new board spins, etc moving to Xilinx there is no way in hell one can justify doing this again to go back to Altera when it has no vision or direction other than AI bullshit.
It will be a cold day in hell before I spec and buy an Intel/Altera FPGA. And I'm not alone.