Altera's New Website Receives Giga's Best-Practice Seal of Approval for Overall Ease of Use.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001

Giga Information Group, Inc. (OTCBB:GIGX) today recognized Altera Corporation's (Nasdaq:ALTR) redesigned web site for its overall usability, based on recent audit results against Giga's Web Site ScoreCard Usability Category. The Altera website now ranks among the top scoring sites for that category.

Giga's Web Site ScoreCard helps companies establish corporate web sites that employ best practices within various categories. Sites with the highest conformance to the reference set of standards and best practices for each category serve as benchmarks against which other companies can compare their sites.

"Many visitors leave a Web site without finding what they came for, even when it exists on the site," said Steve Telleen, vice president of Giga's Web Site ScoreCard Service. "Giga's Web Site ScoreCard Usability Category audits a web site against 120 components known to help site visitors find what the site has to offer. The score for Altera's new site in this category is one of the highest we have seen in the hundreds of sites we have audited."

Altera's redesigned web site provides customers with an easy to use web experience by organizing content by product families, technical support, customer's end-application, training and events, buying online, and company information. In addition, the redesign provides a foundation to greatly expand the features and functionality of Altera's web site.

"Altera's main goal in the redesign was to provide a customer centric website focusing on a consistent navigation scheme, natural language and well-organized content," said Craig Leclair, Altera senior director of online marketing. "The redesign has contributed to a 20 percent increase in web activity, and a positive response from our customers, partners and distributors."

About Giga Information Group

Giga Information Group is a leading global technology advisory firm that provides objective research, pragmatic advice, and personalized consulting. Emphasizing close interaction between analysts and clients, Giga, enables companies to make better strategic decisions that maximize technology investments and achieve business results.

Founded in 1996, Giga is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., and has more than 15 offices throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as offices in the Latin America, Asia/Pacific and Middle East. For additional information, visit www.gigaweb.com.

About Altera

Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company(R), was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores, system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the Internet at http://www.altera.com.

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