Altera Corp. (ALTR) is in the Technology Industry

Altera designs, produces and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs); HardCopyŽ application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices; pre-defined design building blocks known as intellectual property cores; and related development tools. Co.'s PLDs, which consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices are semiconductor integrated circuits that are manufactured as standard chips that Co.'s customers program to perform certain logic functions in their electronic systems. Co.'s HardCopyŽ ASIC devices are designed to allow customers to move from a high-density FPGA to a low-cost non-programmable implementation of their designs for volume production.