For Release: August 07, 2001
Hugh Durdan to Drive Altera Technical and Design Services
San Jose, Calif., August 7, 2001--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that Hugh Durdan has joined Altera as vice president of technical services. Durdan will spearhead company efforts to provide customers with world-class design engineering services and support as they leverage the power of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. The newly created organization will provide design services through Northwest Logic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Altera and partner services via the Altera Consultant Alliances Program (ACAP®) and Certified Design Center (CDC), as well as technical support for approximately 14,000 customers worldwide through Altera's Application Engineering Department. Durdan will report to Jordan Plofsky, senior vice president of vertical markets and embedded processor products.
Plofsky remarked, "Altera is in the business of delivering a competitive edge to our customers. To this end, design services and excellent technical support are critical as our customers develop system level solutions in programmable logic. Hugh will be instrumental in taking these strategic areas to new heights as Altera continues to share our customers' vision."
"Altera has taken programmable logic from being a specialty product to being a strategic element in the production of next generation systems," said Hugh Durdan, Altera's vice president of technical services. "I am thrilled to join the Altera team as we continue build further on our leadership position in the market."
Durdan comes to Altera with over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, he spent three and a half years at LSI Logic Corporation as vice president and general manager of the consumer and computer products divisions. Prior to LSI Logic, he held a variety of management and engineering positions at Mylex, a RAID and SCSI host adapter company and at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he served for 17 years. Durdan holds a BSCE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company®, was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs 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.
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