CUSTOMER ADVISORY ADDITIONAL ASSEMBLY SOURCE Altera is adding Fujitsu Japan as an assembly source for new APEX Fine line BGA products. Fujitsu has been selected because of their excellent assembly performance and their ability to accommodate Altera's high-volume capacity requirements for the FineLine BGA packages. Fujitsu-assembled products have the country of origin, "Japan", marked on the topside of the device. Fujitsu-assembled units are scheduled to begin shipping September 15, 1999. For more information, please contact your local Altera sales representative. * Qualification information will be available September 1999. Please contact Altera's Customer Quality Engineering Manager at (408) 544-7563 for more details ALTERA Corporation 8/1/99 ADV9914