MicroUnity

MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. was a private company located in Los Altos, California and an early developer of broadband microprocessor technologies licensed widely across digital media industries. John Moussouris was its chief executive and chairman, and the company was founded in 1988 by this physicist trained at Harvard University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford University, who had co-founded MIPS Computer Systems; its chief architect was Craig Hansen. In the 1990s the company had been developing what was described as a supercomputer-on-a-chip, designed to enable appliances to process and transmit videos, graphics and audio.