ALTERA'S AGILEX 2X FPGAS CLAIM 1.8X PERFORMANCE PER WATT, WITH 256 GBPS TRANSCEIVERS AND PCIE 7.0

Summary from the TLDR Hardware newsletter

Altera announced Agilex 2X, four FPGA families spanning high-end to I/O-centric parts, led by Agilex 27 with a third-generation HyperFlex fabric claiming 1.8x performance per watt over Agilex 7. It adds a chip-wide HyperFlow data network, transceivers up to 256 Gbps, hardened 800GbE and 1.6TbE, PCIe 6.0 and 7.0, LPDDR6, UCIe, and post-quantum-ready secure boot. Quartus support starts in mid-November, with engineering samples in the second half of 2027.