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, the CEO and Chairman for MicroUnity has been the mind behind the supercomputer-on-a-chip that will enable appliances to process and transmit videos, graphics, and audio.
[2][4] An early investor was Moussouris’ Harvard classmate William Randolph Hearst III, the publishing and media executive who became a partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins.
[11] Company patents describe technologies intended for integration of analog media interfaces with digital circuits.
[12] In 2010, MicroUnity filed suit with 22 cellphone companies including some chip, system, and service providers on 15 of their patents.