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Sorin Cismas is the CTO and founder of Mobilygen. Sorin has extensive experience in digital video, computer architecture, and video compression. Prior to founding Mobilygen, Sorin was the Chief Scientist at Zoran Corporation, after the acquisition in 1996 of CompCore Multimedia, where he was the CTO and co-founder. CompCore produced market leading MPEG video IP cores and DVD software, and was acquired because of its dominant position in the SoftDVD market, positive cash flow, and MPEG expertise. At the time of the merger, the founders and the employees owned 95% of the company.
Before CompCore, Sorin was Senior Design Engineer at LSI Logic and the lead architect/designer of the video unit in Sony PlayStation. His design exceeded Sony's performance requirements and used only a third of the die size estimated by LSI Logic when the deal was negotiated. For the next few years, LSI Logic revenues from this chip reached more than $200M per year, leading to a more than 10x run-up in LSI stock price.
Sorin has a BSEE and MSEE from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute. Prior to coming to the U.S., Sorin was a research engineer at the Romanian Institute for Computer Technology where he developed parallel architectures for image processing. Math remains to this day one of his hobbies. | 