Altera Cyclone® III — An Unprecedented Combination of Power, Functionality, and Cost San Jose, Calif., March 19, 2007—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced the immediate availability of the Cyclone® III family, the industry’s first 65-nm low-cost FPGAs. Leveraging TSMC’s 65-nm low-power (LP) process, Cyclone III FPGAs offer low power, a rich supply of logic, memory and DSP capabilities. At 20 percent lower cost per LE than the previous generation, Cyclone III FPGAs enable more applications than any other low-cost FPGA family in the history of programmable logic.