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                                                 Registration No._____________

                UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           --------------------------

                               ZORAN CORPORATION                       
             -----------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                Delaware                                94-2794449
    ---------------------------------       -----------------------------------
    (State or other jurisdiction            (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
    of incorporation or organization)

                         2041 Mission College Blvd, Suite 255
                            Santa Clara, California 95054                
                 ----------------------------------------------------
                 (Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip code)

                          INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENTS
          GRANTED UNDER THE COMPCORE MULTIMEDIA, INC. 1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            AND ASSUMED BY ZORAN CORPORATION                 
          -------------------------------------------------------------------
                               (Full title of the plan)

                                 Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D.
                        President and Chief Executive Officer
                                  Zoran Corporation
                         2041 Mission College Blvd, Suite 255
                            Santa Clara, California 95054  
                     -------------------------------------------
                       (Name and address of agent for service)

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:  (408) 986-1314

This registration statement, including all exhibits and attachments, contains 9
pages.  The exhibit index may be found on page 7 of the consecutively numbered
pages of the registration statement.

This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with
Rule 462 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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                                 Proposed      Proposed
Title of                         maximum       maximum
securities        Amount         offering      aggregate      Amount of
to be             to be          price per     offering       registration
registered(1)     registered     share(2)      price          fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock        895,831       $0.788023    $705,935.47      $213.92
Par Value $0.001


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                                    PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                 --------------------------------------------------

ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     Zoran Corporation (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:

     (a)  The Company's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the 
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), containing audited financial 
statements for the Company's latest fiscal year.

     (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant 
document referred to in (a) above.

     (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the 
Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act, 
including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such 
description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a 
post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that 
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all 
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by 

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   (1) Includes options to acquire such Common Stock.

   (2) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of calculating the 
registration fee. The price is computed on the basis of the weighted average 
exercise price.


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reference in this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the 
date of filing of such documents.

ITEM 4.   DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

     The class of securities offered is registered under Section 12 of the
Exchange Act.

ITEM 5.   INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

     Inapplicable.

ITEM 6.   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal liability 
of directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary damages for 
breach or alleged breach of the directors' "duty of care."  While the 
relevant statute does not change directors' duty of care, it enables 
corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as 
injunction or rescission.  The statute has no effect on directors' duty of 
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional 
misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment of dividends and 
approval of any transaction from which a director derives an improper 
personal benefit.

     The Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation 
which eliminate the personal liability of its directors to the Company and 
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their 
duty of care.  The By-Laws of the Company provide for indemnification of its 
directors, officers, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by the 
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Company's state of 
incorporation, including those circumstances in which indemnification would 
otherwise be discretionary under Delaware Law.  Section 145 of the General 
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for indemnification in 
terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain 
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) 
arising under the Securities Act.

ITEM 7.   EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

     Inapplicable.

ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS

     See Exhibit Index.

ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS

     (a)  RULE 415 OFFERING

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:


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          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising 
after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent 
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, 
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the 
registration statement;

               (iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
any material change to such information in the registration statement;

PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if 
the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information 
required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is 
contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 
or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in 
the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to 
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, 
and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the 
initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

     (b)  FILING INCORPORATING SUBSEQUENT EXCHANGE ACT DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of 
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of 
the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit 
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be 
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and 
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the 
initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION OF EFFECTIVE DATE OR FILING OF REGISTRATION
          STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as 


                                      4
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expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a 
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by 
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or 
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, 
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling 
person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant 
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by 
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the 
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as 
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such 
issue.

                                   SIGNATURE
                                   ---------

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it 
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this 
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, 
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, 
on January 21, 1997.

                                       Zoran Corporation

                                            /s/ Levy Gerzberg 
                                       By:-------------------------------------
                                            Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D., President and
                                            Chief Executive Officer


                                 POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                 -----------------

     The officers and directors of Zoran Corporation whose signatures appear 
below, hereby constitute and appoint Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D. and Dennis 
Sullivan, Esq., and each of them, their true and lawful attorneys and agents, 
with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and 
execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this 
registration statement on Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby 
ratify and confirm all that each of said attorney and agent, or their or his 
substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  Pursuant to the 
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration 
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities 
indicated on January 21, 1997.

Signature                        Title
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/s/ Levy Gerzberg 
---------------------------
Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D.             President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
                                 (Principal Executive Officer)


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/s/ Ami Kraft 
---------------------------
Ami Kraft                        Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial 
                                 Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting 
                                 Officer)

/s/ Uzia Galil 
---------------------------
Uzia Galil                       Chairman of the Board of Directors

/s/ George T. Haber 
---------------------------
George T. Haber                  Director

/s/ Arie Kahana 
---------------------------
Arie Kahana                      Director

/s/ James D. Meindl 
---------------------------
James D. Meindl                  Director

/s/ Arthur B. Stabenow 
---------------------------
Arthur B. Stabenow               Director

/s/ Philip M. Young 
---------------------------
Philip M. Young                  Director






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                                 EXHIBIT INDEX
                                 -------------

                                                                Sequentially
                                                                Numbered Page
                                                                -------------

4.1  Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is          --
     incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's 
     Registration Statement on Form SB-2 filed with the 
     Securities and Exchange Commission on October 25, 1995 
     (File No. 33-98630-LA)

4.2  Bylaws of the Company is incorporated by reference to 
     Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Registration Statement on 
     Form SB-2 filed with the Securities and Exchange 
     Commission on October 25, 1995 (File No. 33-98630-LA)

5    Opinion re legality                                              8

23.1 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)                       --

23.2 Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP                                  9

24   Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this           --
     registration statement)            














                                      7
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Registration No._____________

                UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           --------------------------

                               ZORAN CORPORATION                       
             -----------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                Delaware                                94-2794449
    ---------------------------------       -----------------------------------
    (State or other jurisdiction            (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
    of incorporation or organization)

                         2041 Mission College Blvd, Suite 255
                            Santa Clara, California 95054                
                 ----------------------------------------------------
                 (Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip code)

                          INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENTS
          GRANTED UNDER THE COMPCORE MULTIMEDIA, INC. 1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            AND ASSUMED BY ZORAN CORPORATION                 
          -------------------------------------------------------------------
                               (Full title of the plan)

                                 Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D.
                        President and Chief Executive Officer
                                  Zoran Corporation
                         2041 Mission College Blvd, Suite 255
                            Santa Clara, California 95054  
                     -------------------------------------------
                       (Name and address of agent for service)

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:  (408) 986-1314

This registration statement, including all exhibits and attachments, contains 9
pages.  The exhibit index may be found on page 7 of the consecutively numbered
pages of the registration statement.

This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with
Rule 462 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

                                      1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                 Proposed      Proposed
Title of                         maximum       maximum
securities        Amount         offering      aggregate      Amount of
to be             to be          price per     offering       registration
registered(1)     registered     share(2)      price          fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock        895,831       $0.788023    $705,935.47      $213.92
Par Value $0.001

                  ------------------------------------------------

                                    PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                 --------------------------------------------------

ITEM 3.   INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     Zoran Corporation (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in this
registration statement the following documents:

     (a)  The Company's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the 
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), containing audited financial 
statements for the Company's latest fiscal year.

     (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 
Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant 
document referred to in (a) above.

     (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the 
Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act, 
including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such 
description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a 
post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that 
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all 
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by 

-----------------------
   (1) Includes options to acquire such Common Stock.

   (2) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of calculating the 
registration fee. The price is computed on the basis of the weighted average 
exercise price.

                                      2
reference in this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the 
date of filing of such documents.

ITEM 4.   DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

     The class of securities offered is registered under Section 12 of the
Exchange Act.

ITEM 5.   INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

     Inapplicable.

ITEM 6.   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal liability 
of directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary damages for 
breach or alleged breach of the directors' "duty of care."  While the 
relevant statute does not change directors' duty of care, it enables 
corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as 
injunction or rescission.  The statute has no effect on directors' duty of 
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional 
misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment of dividends and 
approval of any transaction from which a director derives an improper 
personal benefit.

     The Company has adopted provisions in its Certificate of Incorporation 
which eliminate the personal liability of its directors to the Company and 
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their 
duty of care.  The By-Laws of the Company provide for indemnification of its 
directors, officers, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by the 
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Company's state of 
incorporation, including those circumstances in which indemnification would 
otherwise be discretionary under Delaware Law.  Section 145 of the General 
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for indemnification in 
terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain 
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) 
arising under the Securities Act.

ITEM 7.   EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

     Inapplicable.

ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS

     See Exhibit Index.

ITEM 9.   UNDERTAKINGS

     (a)  RULE 415 OFFERING

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                                      3
(1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being 
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising 
after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent 
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, 
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the 
registration statement;

               (iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
any material change to such information in the registration statement;

PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if 
the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information 
required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is 
contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 
or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in 
the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to 
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, 
and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the 
initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

     (b)  FILING INCORPORATING SUBSEQUENT EXCHANGE ACT DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of 
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of 
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of 
the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit 
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be 
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and 
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the 
initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (h)  REQUEST FOR ACCELERATION OF EFFECTIVE DATE OR FILING OF REGISTRATION
          STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as 

                                      4
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a 
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by 
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or 
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, 
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling 
person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant 
will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by 
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the 
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as 
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such 
issue.

                                   SIGNATURE
                                   ---------

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it 
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this 
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, 
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, 
on January 21, 1997.

                                       Zoran Corporation

                                            /s/ Levy Gerzberg 
                                       By:-------------------------------------
                                            Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D., President and
                                            Chief Executive Officer

                                 POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                 -----------------

     The officers and directors of Zoran Corporation whose signatures appear 
below, hereby constitute and appoint Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D. and Dennis 
Sullivan, Esq., and each of them, their true and lawful attorneys and agents, 
with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and 
execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this 
registration statement on Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby 
ratify and confirm all that each of said attorney and agent, or their or his 
substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  Pursuant to the 
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration 
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities 
indicated on January 21, 1997.

Signature                        Title
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/s/ Levy Gerzberg 
---------------------------
Levy Gerzberg, Ph.D.             President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
                                 (Principal Executive Officer)

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/s/ Ami Kraft 
---------------------------
Ami Kraft                        Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial 
                                 Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting 
                                 Officer)

/s/ Uzia Galil 
---------------------------
Uzia Galil                       Chairman of the Board of Directors

/s/ George T. Haber 
---------------------------
George T. Haber                  Director

/s/ Arie Kahana 
---------------------------
Arie Kahana                      Director

/s/ James D. Meindl 
---------------------------
James D. Meindl                  Director

/s/ Arthur B. Stabenow 
---------------------------
Arthur B. Stabenow               Director

/s/ Philip M. Young 
---------------------------
Philip M. Young                  Director

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EXHIBIT INDEX
                                 -------------

                                                                Sequentially
                                                                Numbered Page
                                                                -------------

4.1  Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is          --
     incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's 
     Registration Statement on Form SB-2 filed with the 
     Securities and Exchange Commission on October 25, 1995 
     (File No. 33-98630-LA)

4.2  Bylaws of the Company is incorporated by reference to 
     Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Registration Statement on 
     Form SB-2 filed with the Securities and Exchange 
     Commission on October 25, 1995 (File No. 33-98630-LA)

5    Opinion re legality                                              8

23.1 Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)                       --

23.2 Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP                                  9

24   Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this           --
     registration statement)            

                                      7