Adaptive SoC
Beginner
One chip that holds normal processor cores, a rewirable FPGA part, and often special engines for AI math.
Novice
A system on a chip that combines hard processor cores, FPGA fabric and, increasingly, arrays of small vector or AI engines, joined by an on-chip network. AMD uses the name for its Versal family; Altera and Microchip build similar SoC FPGAs.
Expert
Hard CPUs for control, fabric for bit-level and streaming logic, a vector-engine array for dense MACs, hard memory controllers and a hard NoC. The goal is to move most of the area into hard blocks, where the FPGA–ASIC gap is small, while keeping fabric for what changes.