Altera Announces Webcast for Annual Analyst Meeting.

Business/Technology Editors

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000

Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced today that a live webcast of its Annual Analyst Meeting will be available on the company's web site, www.altera.com. The meeting, which was previously announced, will begin at 3:30 PM Pacific Standard Time and end at approximately 5:30 PM on November 9, 2000. A replay of the webcast will be available on the company's web site through November.

The webcast will include the slide presentation as well as audio and video. To view the webcast, viewers will need a media player which may be downloaded directly from the webcast site. Webcast viewers are encouraged to log on to the site sufficiently before the meeting start time to ensure a proper connection to the webcast.

About Altera

Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company(R), was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLD's). Altera's CMOS-based PLD's 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.

Note to Editors: Altera and The Programmable Solutions Company are trademarks and/or service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.