[September 15, 2009] Altera Wins Best Telecommunications Market Performance Award from China Electronics News Tweet SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Altera (News - Alert) Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it received the "2009 FPGA Best Market Performance Award in the China Telecommunication Market" from China Electronics News (CEN). The award was given at the 2009 China FPGA Industry Development Forum held in Chengdu, China on August 28, 2009, and recognizes Altera's significant contributions to China's telecommunication market. The winner of this award is determined by a survey of major telecommunication suppliers in China by the CEN editorial team and the research of the market research company iSuppli, as well as a public online poll on CEN's website. The results of the research by CEN and iSuppli showed Altera is the number-one FPGA vendor in China's telecommunication market. "Altera has a deep understanding of the needs of the telecommunication market and provides the market with leading products and technologies," said Ren Aiqing, deputy editor-in-chief, China Electronics News. "Altera's early and continuous investment in providing solutions for TD-SCDMA and various OFDMA-MIMOs has helped major China equipment suppliers proceed smoothly from 3G to LTE (News - Alert) with their products. Additionally, Altera's industry-first 40-nm devices provided a good balance of integrated features, outstanding performance and its unique Programmable Power Technology, which helped telecommunication suppliers meet their performance, power and cost targets." "We are honored to receive this award and the recognition for enabling our customers to rapidly innovate and win in their markets," said Vince Hu, vice president product and corporate marketing, Altera Corporation. "We will continue to work closely with our customers to develop new innovative solutions that further enable them to deliver next-generation services and products." About China Electronics News China Electronics News, under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), is the most authoritative media in China's electronics information Industry. The newspaper focuses on economics and technology to explain the latest developments in government policies guiding the electronics industry as well as to report the latest science and technology developments in the electronics industry. It has a circulation of 200,000 in China. About Altera Altera programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD and ASIC devices at www.altera.com. To subscribe to Altera's RSS/XML news feeds, visit Altera RSS Feeds. Altera, the Altera logo, and all other words that are identified as trademarks are, unless noted otherwise, Registered, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the trademarks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holders. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]