Silver Lake Nears Deal for Stake in Intel’s Altera Unit

Altera Corp. headquarters in San Jose, California.

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Silver Lake Management is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel Corp.’s programmable chips unit, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The private equity firm is thrashing out details of an investment in Altera, whose multi-use chips are primarily deployed in telecommunications networks, according to the people.