Xilinx, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Victor Peng as president and chief executive officer, effective January 29, 2018.
Before joining Xilinx, Peng served as corporate vice president of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering at AMD, where he also served as a key leader in AMD's central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, console game products, CPU chipset and consumer business units. Peng succeeds Moshe Gavrielov, who will step down as CEO and from the board of directors on January 28, as part of a previously announced CEO succession plan.