They tried a lot of things with Altera and failed. The real problem is the price they paid (it was more than $13B). At the time they bought it, Altera had net r

They tried a lot of things with Altera and failed. The real problem is the price they paid (it was more than $13B). At the time they bought it, Altera had net revenues of $0.5B. They simply paid too much to ever recoup the expense.