Altera Achieves New Transistor Integration Record with Its IC Products

The industry's highest bandwidth and highest performance FPGA, integrating a new record of 3.9 billion transistors

Hong Kong, April 19, 2011 – Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced that it has achieved a milestone in the history of semiconductor technology by integrating the industry's highest number of transistors into its IC products. Altera's 28nm Stratix® V FPGA is the industry's first semiconductor product to integrate 3.9 billion transistors. This enables it to provide unrivaled performance for system designers.

Bradley Howe, Vice President of IC Engineering at Altera, said, "Altera broke the existing record for transistors when it completed the development of the Stratix V FPGA in late 2010. Through continuous progress and the realization of Moore's Law, programmable logic has been able to lead innovation at the forefront of semiconductor technology. By achieving this groundbreaking record once again, we are now able to continue advancing FPGAs to even higher capacities and performance with much higher integration density."

The Stratix V FPGA can be considered the most sophisticated semiconductor products currently on the market. As the only FPGAs utilizing TSMC's 28nm high-performance (28HP) process, these products offer maximum performance and bandwidth. By combining the 28HP process with FPGA design optimizations, Altera was able to significantly boost the performance of its high-end devices. 28Gbps transceiver, variable