Hong Kong, August 4, 2015 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced a license agreement with Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMDI), a German analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company. Altera plans to leverage ZMDI’s world-class digital power management technology to integrate advanced multimode digital control (MMDC) power capabilities into its Enpirion® PowerSoC devices. The expert digital power design team will focus on extending the control, regulation, and power-saving capabilities of the Enpirion PowerSoC to further enhance the power efficiency of Altera FPGAs and SoCs.

ZMDI digital power technology complements Altera's existing industry-leading power solutions, integrating high-frequency power IC technology and advanced magnetic engineering into a small form-factor package. The addition of MMDC technology to Enpyrion PowerSoCs delivers enhanced control between Altera's FPGAs and power management ICs. Enpyrion devices featuring MMDC can support a variety of new power modes, reducing static and dynamic power consumption in FPGAs by up to 30%.

The experienced team of engineers responsible for developing these advanced digital power technologies will join Altera's highly experienced research and development team responsible for developing advanced power ICs, and Anthony Kelly, formerly Chief Systems Architect at ZMDI, will join Altera to lead the digital power design team.

Dr. Kelly said, “Altera is a leading innovator, and we are excited about the possibilities of combining our advanced digital power controller technology with Altera’s Enpyrion power products. “By adding our highly skilled team of power management engineers to Altera’s world-class research and development team, we will leverage the strengths of each team to bring new levels of control and regulation capabilities to FPGA-based systems,” he said.

"The addition of this proven group of digital power experts to Altera's highly experienced power management design team will enable us to deliver even greater value to our customers," said Mark Davidson, general manager of Altera's Power Business Unit. "The addition of digital control to our highly integrated power ICs will more reliably address the power requirements of high-end FPGAs while delivering increased system-level power savings."

Enpyrion PowerSoCs address the unique power requirements of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs by delivering industry-leading efficiency and signal integrity at the industry's highest power density. ZMDI's digital power technology delivers industry-leading transient response in the programmable digital domain while enabling heterogeneous control modes for a variety of purposes. By integrating innovative digital control technologies into Enpyrion PowerSoCs, Altera plans to develop highly innovative power solutions optimized to meet the high-performance demands of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. For more information about Altera's power products, please visit www.altera.com/power.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the anticipated benefits of integrating digital control power into Altera's PowerSoC devices, which are pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors should note that these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. These risks and uncertainties are described in Altera's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), copies of which are available on Altera's website and free of charge upon request.