Victor Peng, President and CEO of Xilinx, won the ASPENCORE Global Electronic Achievement Award for the Year of Innovation
November 9, 2018, Shenzhen, China – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a global leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced that Victor Peng, President and CEO of Xilinx, was awarded 2018 The annual Innovation Award for the ASPENCORE Global Electronic Achievement Award (WEAA). In addition, the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC has also won the Processor/DSP/FPGA Class of the Year Award for Product Excellence. The Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family integrates the critical subsystems and wired infrastructure required for multi-band, multi-mode cellular radios into the SoC platform. The SoC platform includes a feature-rich 64-bit quad-core Arm® CortexTM-A53 and dual-core Arm Cortex-R5 processing system.
Peng said: "I am honored to be selected by the WEAA jury as an innovative person of the year and with everyone's RFSoC solution. In today's era of flexible computing, I am committed to continuing to promote Xilin. The transformation and evolution of thinking. For Xilinx, this is an exciting time, I am looking forward to leading Xilinx into a new stage of innovation.
Since being appointed CEO of Xilinx in January this year, Peng has launched a series of corporate transformation plans to open up new markets through new technologies, including major advances such as the launch of ACAP (Adaptive Computing Acceleration Platform). The industry's first ACAP platform, VersalTM, was launched at the Xilinx Developer Conference (XDF) in Beijing in October, along with Xilinx's new powerful data center accelerator card product line, AlveoTM.