Company Profile for Altera Corporation

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, CPLDs, and HardCopy® ASICs in combination with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to over 13,000 customers worldwide. Altera was founded in 1983 and has annual revenues in 2008 of US$1.37 billion. Altera is headquartered in San Jose, California, and employs approximately 2,700 people in 19 countries.

Forging the next evolution in electronic design, Altera® reprogrammable solutions deliver fast time to market and an advantage over costly, high-risk ASIC development and inflexible ASSPs and digital signal processors. Altera offers value to a much broader market than was previously addressed by programmable logic products.

By maintaining strong, long-standing partnerships with industry-leading technology suppliers, such as foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Altera customers are assured of quality and on-time delivery. Altera enhances its own place-and-route design software with tools from best-in-class EDA vendors. With the assistance of a world-class distribution network, Altera services customers around the world. This highly successful business model allows Altera to focus on its core competency: the development and deployment of leading-edge programmable technology that provides maximum value to customers.

Company:	Altera Corporation
Headquarters Address:	101 Innovation Drive
	San Jose, CA 95134
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Ticker:	ALTR(NASDAQ)
Type of Organization:	Public
Industry:	Technology
Key Executives:	CEO: John Daane
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