Mindray Honors Altera with “Best Service Award”

San Jose, Calif., April 28, 2011—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it received the 2010 "Best Service Award" from Mindray Medical International Limited (NYSE: MR). Based in Shenzen, China, Mindray is a leading company in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical devices. Altera is the only FPGA company to be presented with this award.

As part of its annual supplier conference, Mindray acknowledges its most valued partners who demonstrate a vision for innovation and productivity. Mindray recognized Altera for delivering technologies and services that offer the right features, value and technical support. Mindray and Altera have established a proven relationship of joint cooperation for product development and customer success over the past years. They have recognized Altera with numerous awards including the "Excellent Supplier Award" and “Outstanding Contribution Award”.

“We are happy to present Altera with the Best Service Award,” said Mr. Nie Yajun, director of Supply Chain Management at Mindray. “Altera's professional team has worked closely with us to ensure our delivery of high-quality medical products to end customers, and this award is very well deserved.”

“We are honored to have received this prestigious award from Mindray recognizing Altera's contribution to its great success in the global medical devices market in 2010,” said Erhaan Shaikh, vice president and managing director of Altera Asia Pacific. “At Altera, we strive to provide our customers with innovative products, combined with outstanding service, enabling them to deliver superior value to their end markets. We appreciate the long and successful partnership between Altera and Mindray and look forward to many years of mutual success.”

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