Victor Peng (; born 1960) is a Taiwanese-American technology executive and the president of Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a hardware and fabless company that de ...

. He was the CEO of

Xilinx Xilinx, Inc. ( ) was an American technology and semiconductor company that primarily supplied programmable logic devices. The company is renowned for inventing the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also pioneered ...

, an American technology company that supplies

programmable logic device A programmable logic device (PLD) is an electronic component used to build reconfigurable digital circuits. Unlike digital logic constructed using discrete logic gates with fixed functions, the function of a PLD is undefined at the time of m ...

s before it was acquired by AMD.

Career

Peng received a

Bachelor of Engineering A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a college graduate majoring in an engineering discipline at a higher education institution. In the United Kingdom, a Ba ...

from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

and a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. He holds four U.S. patents about engineering apparatus and methods from his work at Act-Rx Technology Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. Peng began his engineering career at

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...

(DEC) in 1982. Then, from 1996 to 2008, he held several executive positions successively at

Silicon Graphics Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and soft ...

MIPS Technologies MIPS Tech LLC, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc., is an American Fabless semiconductor company, fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of Re ...

, Tzero Technologies, ATI and later AMD. He joined Xilinx in January 2008 and returned to AMD in 2022. From 1998 to 2004, Peng led the development of

graphics processing units A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal co ...

(GPUs) and multimedia products at MIPS Technologies. He joined ATI in 2005 before it was acquired by AMD. Then, he was corporate vice president of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering at AMD. He also led AMD's central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, console game products, CPU chipset and consumer business units. Peng was also corporate vice president of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering at AMD until 2008. Peng successively held several C-level executive positions at the Programmable Products Group at Xilinx. He was responsible for the development and delivery of Xilinx programmable platforms including silicon and enabling technologies. He led the Programmable Platforms Development from November 2008 until April 2012. The following year, Peng was the company senior vice president of programmable platforms group. From July 2014 to April 2017, Peng was senior vice president and general manager of products at Xilinx, Inc. He was

chief operating officer A chief operating officer (COO), also called chief operations officer, is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics). COOs are usually second-in-command immediately after the C ...

at Xilinx from April 2017 and was appointed member of the board of directors in October of the same year. On January 29, 2018, he was appointed the fourth company CEO and succeeded Moshe Gavrielov as part of an official succession plan. In February of 2022, Peng rejoined AMD as president, Adaptable and Embedded Computing Group with AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx. On July 22, 2024 AMD announced that Peng will retire from president position on August 30, 2024.

References

External links

Official page

Victor Peng Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peng, Victor 21st-century American businesspeople American people of Taiwanese descent American chief executives of manufacturing companies 1960 births Living people Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Cornell University alumni American technology chief executives Chief executives in the manufacturing industry AMD people Businesspeople from Taipei