Xilinx has established a new organization for the management of its silicon products business. The Xilinx Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) will be led by Victor Peng (pictured), who recently resigned his role as Vice President of the Graphics Products Group for AMD. Peng joins Xilinx as Senior Vice President of the SEG. 

Peng spent three years working with AMD on areas including development of graphics processing units and as a leader of the ASIC services and technology engineering division. Prior to joining AMD in 2005, Peng held various senior engineering roles with MIPS Technologies, TZero Technologies and SGI/MIPS Group. He began his career with Digital Equipment Corp., and has a B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.Eng. in electronics engineering from Cornell University.

Xilinx, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company specialising in programmable logic ICs.

By Síle Mc Mahon