Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs Named Product of the Year by EN-Genius Network.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced the EN-Genius Network (http://www.en-genius.net/site/static/EN-Genius_product_of_the_year_winners_2008) has selected the 40-nm Stratix([R]) IV FPGA and HardCopy([R]) IV ASIC families as the Best High-End FPGA Family for its annual "Product of the Year" award.

Winners of the "Product of the Year" award were selected in 39 different product categories from the hundreds of products reviewed in 2008 by EN-Genius. This honor is the fifth award Altera's Stratix IV FPGA family has won since the devices were announced in May 2008.

"Product of the Year awards are based on the expert personal opinion of the EN-Genius editorial staff," said EN-Genius editor-in-chief Paul McGoldrick. "We believe these award-winning products will make significant contributions to the bottom line numbers for the companies involved based on their strong technical merit, design innovation and marketability."

Stratix IV FPGAs deliver leadership in density, performance and power, and offer an ideal solution for high-end digital applications in several markets, including wireless and wireline communications, military and broadcast. Stratix IV FPGAs are comprised of two variants, an enhanced (E) version and a transceiver (GX) version. The family offers up to 680K logic elements, 22.4 Mbits of internal RAM and 1,360 18x18 embedded multipliers. The devices also utilize the latest architecture innovations and process techniques to deliver the lowest power and the highest performance of any high-end FPGA.

Stratix IV GX FPGAs feature up to 48 transceivers operating up to 8.5 Gbps, which enable the development of next-generation, high-bandwidth communication infrastructure. Stratix IV GX FPGAs incorporate up to four hard intellectual property (IP) cores for PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1, x4 and x8), and also support a wide range of protocols including Serial RapidIO([R]), Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, CPRI (including 6G CPRI), CEI-6G, GPON, SFI-5.1 and Interlaken. For more information on the market-leading features within Altera([R]) Stratix IV FPGAs, visit www.altera.com/pr/stratix4.

Altera HardCopy ASICs provide customers with a low-risk, low-cost option to an ASIC implementation. Stratix IV FPGAs, when coupled with HardCopy IV ASICs, provide the benefits of FPGAs and the benefits of ASICs. HardCopy IV ASICs deliver the lowest total cost, lowest risk, and fastest time-to-market, fastest time-to-profit solution. For information on HardCopy IV ASIC devices, visit www.altera.com/hardcopy4.

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