SAN JOSE, Calif., April 21, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc (Nasdaq:ISSI), a leader in advanced memory solutions, today announced Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) has selected the company as the Synchronous SRAM and SDRAM vendor of choice for its commercial FPGA development boards. In addition these ISSI memories have also been designed into the development and educational boards in Altera's University Program. ISSI's SDRAMs and Synchronous SRAMs provide a high performance, low power, cost effective, external memory.
"Our development boards play an important part in simplifying design for our customers and improving their time to market," said Udi Landen, vice president of software and IP engineering at Altera. "The performance provided by ISSI's memory products along with their stable base of supply and long term support makes ISSI an excellent memory partner for our development boards."
"We are pleased to work with Altera, a leader in Programmable Logic Products," said Sanjiv Asthana, ISSI senior vice president of sales. "Our broad offering of high performance SRAM and complete line of low to medium density DRAM give us the right products to support their development boards."
ISSI's memory expertise provides an added benefit for the University Program as Altera is able to leverage this knowledge and pass it through to the students in the University program.
About ISSI
ISSI is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high performance integrated circuits for the following key markets: (i) digital consumer electronics, (ii) networking, (iii) mobile communications and (iv) automotive electronics. The Company's primary products are high speed and low power SRAM and low and medium density DRAM. The Company also designs and markets EEPROM, SmartCards and is developing selected non-memory products focused on its key markets. ISSI is headquartered in Silicon Valley with worldwide offices in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, and Korea. Visit our web site at http://www.issi.com.
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