--- title: Imagination Blog | Kristof Beets (2) description: Kristof Beets is Vice President of Product Management here at Imagination. He has a background in electrical engineering and received a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. Prior to joining the Labs Team he was part of the Business Development and Product Management Teams. Before this he worked on SDKs and tools for both PC and mobile products and ran the Competitive Analysis and Demo Teams as a member of the PowerVR Developer Relations and Ecosystem Teams. Kristof has written numerous articles and whitepapers which have been published in the ShaderX and GPU Pro Series of books and online by the Khronos Group, Beyond3D, 3Dfx Interactive and of course Imagination. Kristof has spoken at GDC, SIGGRAPH, Embedded Technology and MWC among others. 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It goes along the lines of: despite... [Read more](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/a-look-at-the-powervr-graphics-architecture-tile-based-rendering/) ## [Graphics cores: trying to compare apples to apples](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/graphics-cores-trying-compare-apples-apples/) [GPU](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/tag/gpu) 5 min read Marketing of modern graphics processors involves comparing many low-level performance metrics. For... [Read more](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/graphics-cores-trying-compare-apples-apples/) ### Subscribe to our blog ### Introducing E-Series GPU Imagination E-Series GPU IP breaks through the barriers of throughput, memory, and power at the edge.Built for next-gen AI, E-Series delivers high performance and adaptability across mobile, automotive, desktop, and consumer markets, avoiding the rigidity of fixed-function accelerators while retaining the flexibility of GPU programmability. 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