Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 15, 2002
NEIL TREVETT is Senior Vice President of Market Development at 3Dlabs,
Inc.. Ltd. Has spent 19 years in the 3D graphics industry. As Vice
President of 3Dlabs, he has been at the forefront of the silicon
revolution bringing interactive 3D to the PC and holds several patents
in the area of graphics technology. Mr. Trevett recently established the
embedded graphics division of 3Dlabs to bring advanced visual processing
to a wide-range of non-PC platforms. For the past four years, Mr.
Trevett has been President of the Web3D Consortium, a group of industry-
leading companies dedicated to creating open standards for 3D on the
Internet. He was also recently elected Secretary of the Khronos Group
developing the OpenML standard for dynamic media processing and graphics
APIs for embedded appliances and applications. After receiving a first
class joint BSc Electronic Engineering and Computer Science degree in
the United Kingdom, Mr. Trevett worked at a major systems house
designing advanced architectures and programming languages for image
recognition systems. In 1985, Mr. Trevett joined benchMark Technologies
as Head of Graphics Systems. benchMark later became Du Pont Pixel (a
subsidiary of the multi-billion dollar Du Pont Corporation) and
eventually evolved into the independently owned 3Dlabs, Inc. Profile
Mr. Trevett: 3Dlabs can trace its heritage back 20 years. So the company
has been very active in graphics and image processing. We
