Geo Semiconductor Inc. "GEO", a Delaware company was founded by Paul Russo in 2000, to spin-off geometry processing technology from Genesis Microchip. Genesis Microchip, also founded by Paul Russo, started the first phase of the digital video revolution, went public in 1998 (NASDAQ: GNSS), and reached a market cap of $2 billion at its peak. It was recently acquired by ST Micro.