Kristof Beets

Kristof Beets

Kristof Beets is VP of Technology Insights at Imagination, where he drives the alignment of the technology roadmaps with market trends and customer needs as part of the IMG Labs Research organisation. 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.

Understanding PowerVR Series5XT: Multithreading, multitasking ALUs, the MicroKernel and core scalability

A unified architecture means that the ALUs (Arithmetic Logic Units – the bits of the hardware that do all the number crunching as part of shader or.

Understanding PowerVR Series5XT: PowerVR, TBDR and architecture efficiency

In the previous three sections, I discussed the need to match market requirements, our rapid adoption of multiple graphics APIs, and our uncompromising.

Understanding PowerVR Series5XT: PowerVR and GPU compute

In my last two articles, I’ve explained how PowerVR Series5XT GPUs are able to go beyond the basic feature set of graphics APIs like OpenGL ES and.

Understanding PowerVR Series5XT: PowerVR GPUs and graphics API standards adoption

On March 15th, Samsung announced their flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone – powered by their own Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SoC with a PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU core..

Understanding PowerVR Series5XT: PowerVR GPUs and graphics API standards

On March 15th, Samsung announced their flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone – powered by their own Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SoC with a PowerVR Series5XT SGX544MP3.

Great graphics IP, it’s about software too

It’s common to think of Imagination Technologies and companies like us that are in the business of selling world-class semiconductor IP that powers some.

Learning about the Android graphics subsystem

Graphics performance is the most important component in defining any user interface (UI) experience. The smoothness of the UI interactions and the.