Intel welcomed employees from its massive Altera acquisition this week, and the first products from the deal will come out this quarter.

The chipmaker poured out $16.7 billion [B] to buy Altera, which makes FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), or chips that can be reprogrammed for specific tasks. The first chip that combines Intel and Altera technology will go into servers, cars, robots, the Internet of Things, automation equipment and other products, Intel says.

Intel will start shipping its first server chips with Altera’s FPGAs to select “leading-edge” cloud customers this quarter, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said during an earnings call on Thursday.

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