Summary of the situation from The Register headline: >Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B >Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x8

Summary of the situation from The Register headline: >Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B >Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago for those not up on this stuff