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On the KLA board of directors since February 2019 and the MicroChip Technology board since February 2025. Recently joined the Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center. AMD President from February 2023 until retiring in August 2024. As AMD President was responsible for the Embedded and Data Center GPU businesses, Research and Advanced Development Group and the company’s AI strategy including the AI hardware roadmap and software efforts. Rejoined AMD in February 2022 after close of the AMD acquisition of Xilinx (~$50B at time of close). Xilinx CEO from January 2018 to February 2022. 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 adaptive SOC family, Alveo accelerator cards, and the AI Engine (now AMD's XDNA IP in Ryzen CPUs) technology. Xilinx Chief Operating Officer from April 2017 to January 2018, leading Global Sales, Product and Vertical Marketing, Product Development, and Global Operations and Quality. Prior to that, served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Products from July 2014 to April 2017, leading the definition, development, and marketing for the company’s portfolio of products and differentiated technologies. First joined Xilinx in 2008 as SVP of Engineering. Prior to Xilinx, Mr. Peng worked at AMD as Corporate Vice President of Silicon Engineering for the Graphics Products Group and led the Central Silicon Engineering team supporting graphics, game console products, and CPU chipsets. Prior to that, Mr. Peng held executive and engineering leadership roles at MIPS Technologies, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corp. Mr. Peng holds four U.S. patents and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Retired from AMD. At the time of retirement was responsible for data center GPU business, AI SW stack, the embedded business (former Xilinx), and the research and advanced development group.