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For Release: May 24, 2001
Georgia Tech

Altera Corporation Awarded with Georgia Tech's Hill Society Membership

ATLANTA (May 24, 2001) -- San Jose-based Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) has been selected as a charter member of Georgia Tech's prestigious Hill Society. Georgia Tech's Hill Society was established to recognize all donors of $1 million and up, which include corporations, individuals, foundations, and all alumni. Through Altera's donation of over $2.3 million of state-of-the-art professional CAD tools, Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been able to keep up with leading-edge technology.

"With Altera's support we were able to greatly expand the scope and complexity of our laboratory projects in ECE 2031 Digital Design Laboratory," said James O. Hamblen, Associate Professor at the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "In addition to the traditional digital laboratory projects with gates and state machines, all ECE students now use Altera's programmable logic CAD tools to develop next-generation products."

"Altera's University Program is committed to helping colleges and universities worldwide utilize leading-edge technology," said Tawfiq Mossadak, Altera University Program manager. "By providing state-of-the-art software tools, IP cores, and hardware platforms, Altera facilitates and promotes hands-on experience for tomorrow's engineers."

The Altera University Program was established in 1990, and today Altera tools and devices are used in more than 1800 colleges and universities worldwide.

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.


For more information contact:

Suzy Briggs
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.894.5210
suzy.king@ece.gatech.edu
Bruce Fienberg
Altera Corporation
408.544.6866
bfienber@altera.com

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