Mindray Medical International Honors Altera with Best Quality Award for Delivering Industry-leading FPGA Technology, Service and Support

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindray Medical International Limited MR, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, has awarded Altera Corporation ALTR the 2013 Best Quality Award. From its manufacturing and engineering base in China, Mindray's worldwide distribution network supplies a broad range of products across three primary business segments:  patient monitoring and life support, in-vitro diagnostics, and medical imaging systems. Mindray is recognizing Altera for delivering cost-effective, state-of-the-art programmable logic solutions in a timely manner, while consistently meeting high quality, reliability, and service requirements.

This is the fifth supplier award in the past eight years that Altera has received from Mindray, and the two companies have established a proven relationship of joint cooperation to drive for quality and to support customer success. Altera technology, including its Altera Cyclone® FPGAs are used by Mindray in its imaging and diagnostic products.

Altera Cyclone® FPGAs are built to meet systems designers' low power, cost-sensitive design needs, enabling faster time-to-market. Each generation of Cyclone FPGAs solves the technical challenges of increased integration, increased performance, lower power, while meeting cost-sensitive requirements.

"We are happy to present Altera with the Best Quality Award," said Jing Jungang, general manager of the manufacturing center at Mindray. "Altera's professional team has worked closely with us to ensure our delivery of high-quality medical products to end customers, and this award is very well-deserved."

"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from Mindray recognizing Altera's contribution to its great success in the global medical devices market in 2013," said Erhaan Shaikh, regional vice president and managing director of Altera Asia Pacific. "We strive to provide our customers with innovative, high-quality products, combined with outstanding service, enabling them to deliver superior value to their end markets. We appreciate the long and successful partnership between Altera and Mindray and look forward to many years of mutual success."

About Altera

Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs, ASICs and complementary technologies, such as power management, to provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. Visit www.Altera.com.

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