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AMD showcased its Versal RF Series at Hot Chips 2026, an adaptive SoC family aimed at wide‑band RF signal processing for defense, test and measurement, communications, and quantum control. The new parts deliver up to 19× the DSP compute and 6.4× the sample rate of previous generations, achieving 32 GSPS on the ADC side and 18 GHz RF bandwidth versus 5 GSPS and 6 GHz on Gen 3. The architecture integrates hard IP, AI Engine arrays, dual Cortex‑A72 cores, and DDR5/LPDDR5X memory, enabling efficient data collapse from 18 GHz down to 1 MHz for edge intelligence.