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Code Metal has acquired Signal Processing Technologies (SPT), expanding its provable AI platform into advanced communications, software-defined radio, and digital signal processing. The company also announced the launch of its new Advanced RF Group, marking its first acquisition since its founding in 2023.

The move strengthens Code Metal’s position in technologies that support telecommunications, industrial infrastructure, autonomous systems, and defense applications. For eeNews Europe readers, the acquisition reflects how AI is becoming more tightly integrated with RF engineering, software defined radio, and semiconductor platforms. It also highlights growing demand for hardware optimized AI solutions across communications, industrial electronics, and aerospace.

Expanding into RF and Communications

SPT’s founders, Joe Farkas and Dr. Brandon Hombs, will join Code Metal to lead the new Advanced RF Group. Founded in 2019, SPT specializes in signal processing, software defined radio, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, advanced communications, and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing technologies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The announcement follows a period of rapid growth for Code Metal. Earlier this year, the Boston based company raised $125 million in Series B funding. As a result, it reached a valuation of $1.25 billion. Its customers include the U.S. Air Force, RTX, Toshiba, and L3Harris.

“As AI accelerates software creation, the hard problem is no longer writing code — it’s turning that code into trusted systems running on the satellites, vehicles, communications networks, and critical infrastructure we depend on every day,” said Peter Morales, Founder and CEO of Code Metal. “Increasingly, those systems live or die by how well they operate across the electromagnetic spectrum. Acquiring SPT lets us solve that problem in one of the most consequential technology domains of the coming decade.”

AI Meets RF Hardware

According to Code Metal, demand is growing for technologies that can operate reliably in crowded radio frequency environments. For example, connected vehicles, satellite communications, 5G and emerging 6G networks, industrial IoT, and autonomous platforms all depend on advanced signal processing. They also require reliable spectrum awareness.

The new Advanced RF Group will focus on software defined radio, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, autonomous sensing systems, resilient wireless communications, and next generation aerospace and defense platforms.

“RF is where software meets hardware,” Morales added. “The algorithms behind communications, sensing, navigation, and autonomy have to execute on real devices, such as CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and the next generation of semiconductor platforms. Expanding into RF takes us deeper into the silicon layer and strengthens our ability to move our customers’ capabilities from code to deployment, whatever industry they’re in.”

Meanwhile, Joe Farkas believes the acquisition will help SPT scale its expertise. “We’ve spent years solving some of the toughest problems in the spectrum domain for defense and commercial customers,” he said. “Code Metal gives us a way to deliver that expertise as a repeatable, provable engineering capability rather than a series of one off projects. That’s a step change for the customers we serve.”

Overall, Code Metal says the acquisition strengthens its ability to combine AI, software, RF technologies, and semiconductor hardware. Ultimately, the company aims to shorten the path from algorithm development to deployment for mission critical systems.

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