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Altera North American Company Profiles
Management
1-16
Development Software
and Hardware
6%
CMOS Programmable
Logic Chips
94%
1996 Sales by Product Type
Asia-Pacific
7%
Japan
19%
Europe
21%
Military
4%
Industrial
14%
Computer
19%
North America
53%
1996 Sales by Geographic Region
Consumer
4%
Other
1%
Communications
58%
1996 Sales by End-Use Market
Rodney Smith Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Denis Berlan Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Clive McCarthy Senior Vice President, Development Engineering
Erik Cleage Vice President, Marketing
Jack Fitzhenry Vice President, Human Resources
Thomas J. Nicoletti Vice President, Business Development and Investor Relations
Nathan Sarkisian Vice President, Finance
Peter Smyth Vice President, Sales
Chris Henry Director, Customer Marketing
Products and Processes
Altera's PLD products extend from 24 to 599 pins with usable gate counts up to 130,000 gates and process
technologies advancing to 0.35μm through its fabrication partners. The company has released some details
regarding its next major family of PLDs. Code-named Michelangelo, the new family of devices will be pin
compatible with the MAX 7000 Family, Altera’s most popular line. Michelangelo PLDs, ranging from 32 macrocells
on the low end to 1,008 on the high end, will start shipping in the first half of 1998.
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