Altera's Ships 10 Millionth 3.3-Volt MAX 7000 Device.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000

Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) announced today that it has sold over 10 million units of its 3.3-volt MAX(R) 7000A family of programmable logic devices (PLDs). The complete MAX 7000A family represents the fastest growing product-term architecture ever with currently 2,700 customers and cumulative sales of over $125 million. The 3.3-volt family has been popular in DSL, VOIP, 3G wireless, high-speed routers, and mass storage applications. The MAX 7000A family is the 3.3-volt industry leader, recording 44 percent sequential revenue growth in the second quarter of 2000, as compared to the first quarter of 2000. The MAX 7000A family is the fourth generation of Altera's industry-leading MAX 7000 architecture. In its nine-year history, the MAX 7000 architecture has accounted for sales of over $2 billion to more than 21,800 customers.

"The MAX 7000A family is the result of almost 10 years of efforts to continually enhance and cost-reduce the MAX 7000 architecture. Strong customer acceptance of the MAX 7000A family continues to validate the strength of the architecture and Altera's commitment to providing the best value to our customers," said Tim Colleran, Altera director of component marketing. "Looking forward, Altera will maintain its commitment to lead the industry to new lower-voltage levels, innovative features, and enhanced technology enhancements in the product-term market."

As a follow-on to the MAX 7000A family, Altera recently introduced the fifth generation of the MAX 7000 architecture, the 2.5V MAX 7000B family. This high-performance 0.22 micron family is shipping, winning designs and gaining industry-wide acceptance with innovative features such as GTL+ and SSTL I/O capabilities.

"Just as the MAX 7000 architecture dominated the high-density product-term market at 5- and 3.3-volts, the MAX 7000B family is firmly on track for repeat success as customers migrate their designs to the 2.5-volt generation," Colleran added.

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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