For Release: February 20 , 2000
Jordan Plofsky Joins Altera as Senior Vice President of Embedded Processor Products
San Jose, Calif., February 20, 2001--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that Jordan Plofsky has joined Altera as senior vice president of embedded processor products, reporting to John Daane, president and CEO. Mr. Plofsky's responsibilities will include marketing and engineering of Altera's Excalibur™ embedded processor solutions.
"Jordan brings nearly 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry to Altera," said John Daane, Altera president and CEO. "His first hand knowledge of the communications industries, intellectual property design and marketing, and the system-on-a-chip market will be of direct benefit to Altera as we extend the reach of our devices across the high-growth markets that we serve."
Mr. Plofsky was previously executive vice president of the Enterprise Internetworking Group at LSI Logic. He has earlier served in a variety of management and senior executive roles at Analog Devices Inc. and Harris Corporation. Mr. Plofsky holds a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois.
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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