Victor Peng is President at AMD. In this role, he is responsible for AMD’s adaptive and embedded products including FPGAs, adaptive SoCs and embedded processors, and the company’s AI strategy, including the AI roadmap across client, edge and cloud, datacenter GPUs, and AI software efforts.   

Peng rejoined AMD in 2022 after 14 years at Xilinx, most recently serving as president, CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Peng has over 40 years of experience defining and delivering leadership technologies across FPGAs, SoCs, GPUs, and high-performance CPUs. 

During his tenure as CEO of Xilinx, Peng accelerated the company’s growth by increasing its market share, expanding into the data center market, and transforming the company from a chip supplier to an adaptable platform provider with products like the Versal ACAP and the Alveo family of acceleration cards, as well as delivering key technologies like the AI Engine and the Vitis software stack.

Prior to joining Xilinx, Peng worked at AMD as corporate vice president of silicon engineering for the graphics products group (GPG) and led the central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, game console products, and CPU chipsets. Prior to that, Peng held executive and engineering leadership roles at MIPS Technologies, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corp. 

Peng holds four U.S. patents and serves on the Board of Directors of KLA Corporation. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds a Master’s degree also in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.