One advantage of Altera: parts made on Intel's own fab (so Stratix-10 and Agilex) have reasonable lead times (8-12 weeks).
Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
Intel recently announced their new "Sundance Mesa" series of FPGAs, which are Agilex, and designed as low-end replacements for Cyclone, etc. And they said that they'll be offering Quartus Pro free for Sundance Mesa devices. This really surprised me; generally speaking, in terms of software availability, Xilinx is much more approachable and there are plenty of high-end choices while using Vivado for free.
But beyond that: I just run Quartus in eval mode and rm -rf ~/.altera* once every 30 days and reset it. One of these days I'll get a license for my giant Stratix 10 board when my designs are more finished...