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FLEX LOGIX EXPANDS MANAGEMENT TEAM

 
 
 
 


                                                


FLEX LOGIX EXPANDS MANAGEMENT TEAM  
      

TO MEET GROWING DEMAND   
   

FOR ITS AI INFERENCING AND EFPGA SOLUTIONS  
   


Co-Founder Cheng Wang promoted to SVP and CTO; VP Software
and VP People strengthen existing management team
as company enters its next phase of growth and expansion



MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – February 8, 2022 –  Flex Logix® Technologies, Inc., supplier of the
most-efficient AI edge inference accelerator and the leading supplier of eFPGA IP, today
announced that it has further strengthened its management team as the company readies itself
for its next wave of growth. New appointments include Randy Allen, who joins as Vice President
of Software/Softlogic; Cheng Wang, who has been promoted to Senior VP and Chief Technology
Officer (CTO); and Mike Schroeder, who assumes the role of VP People.


"Today, our inference accelerators are successfully running customer models with superior
throughput/$ and throughput/watt, while our embedded FPGA technology continues to be adopted
by chip designers throughout the industry," said Geoff Tate, Founder and CEO of Flex Logix.
"By continuing to expand and add expertise to our management team, we can better take
advantage of these successes and deliver the best software and hardware solutions to our
customers."



About Cheng Wang

As a Co-Founder of Flex Logix, Cheng was previously Senior VP Software and Engineering.
Cheng has received the Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award and was the 2014 ISSCC Lewis
Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Cheng holds a BSEECS from UC Berkeley and MS and PhD
degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Cheng is the inventor of most of Flex Logix's dozens
of patents.
In his new role as CTO, Cheng will lead the company's technology direction while he
continues to be a key driver of Flex Logix's technology software, Softlogic and hardware.


About Randy Allen

Randy brings a wealth of software management experience to Flex Logix, having managed
development of successful products in EDA, embedded software and HPC. Dr. Allen was the first
VP of Software at Cypress Semiconductor, served as Chief Architect at National Instruments, ran
the Advanced Technology Group at Synopsys, and founded two companies focused on advanced
compilation. Dr. Allen is co-author of the graduate level textbook "Optimizing Compilers for
Modern Architectures." He earned an A.B. summa cum laude in Chemistry from Harvard University
and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University.

In his new role, Randy assumes Cheng's software responsibilities overseeing the inference software
team, eFPGA software team, and the Softlogic team. Flex Logix plans to more than double the size
of these teams this year.



About Mike Schroeder

Mike brings over 25 years of experience to Flex Logix as a specialist in organizational development,
talent acquisition, change management, coaching, and employee engagement at startups and
global public corporations. He has proven success building, scaling, and leading top-performing
global human resources and business organizations. Mike majored in Russian Language Studies at
the University of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute.

In his new role as VP People, Mike will play a key role in helping the company reach its goal of
more than doubling its workforce in the near future.



About Flex Logix

Flex Logix is a reconfigurable computing company providing AI inference and eFPGA solutions based
on software, systems and silicon. Its InferX X1 is the industry's most-efficient AI edge inference
accelerator that will bring AI to the masses in high-volume applications by providing much higher
inference throughput per dollar and per watt. Flex Logix's eFPGA platform enables chips to flexibly
handle changing protocols, standards, algorithms, and customer needs and to implement
reconfigurable accelerators that speed key workloads 30-100x compared to processors. Flex Logix
is headquartered in Mountain View, California and also has offices in Austin, Texas.
For more information, visit https://flex-logix.com. 



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