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Take the helm of your own technology company in Hardware Tycoon. Start your journey in 1986 and lead your enterprise through four decades of innovation to 2026. This game is about shaping the future of computing. Design the brains of tomorrow's devices, outsmart ruthless competitors, and build a legacy that lasts. Dive deep into the heart of silicon. Decide on core counts, clock speeds, cache sizes, and thermals. Balance raw performance against power efficiency and cost to create the perfect processor for every market segment. Every design choice impacts benchmarks, reviews, and your bottom line.
PC (Microsoft Windows) · May 18, 2026
Worldwide · Exact date · Full release · IGDB
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22 achievements available.
Manufacture your very first working chip.
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Release a next-gen CPU that gets outsold by your own previous generation.
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Research every single technology available in the game.
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Start a new game in 1986 and reach the year 2026 without going bankrupt.
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Enter a pre-bankruptcy state. Creditors are circling.
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Go completely bankrupt. Every empire falls someday.
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Hit a total headcount of 1,000 employees placed across your offices.
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Design and bring to market 5 or more distinct microarchitectures.
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Develop a processor with 2 or more cores, starting your game from 1986.
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Grow your balance from under 15M $ up to 1B $
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Achieve a CPU clock speed of 7+ GHz. Liquid nitrogen not included.
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Double the transistor count in your flagship CPU compared to the previous generation.
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Without designing a single architecture, accumulate office space of > 20000 m² starting with < 15M $ funds.
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Without designing a single architecture, earn 100M $ purely from contract fabrication.
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Research and develop a bleeding-edge 1nm process node architecture.
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Create a CPU with TDP exceeding 500W. Hope your cooling budget is unlimited.
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Push TDP past the 1000W mark. You're not building a CPU, you're taming a star.
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Build your own fabrication plant and start making chips for yourself.
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Become a contract manufacturer and produce CPUs under other companies' brands.
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Own office premises with a total area of over 10,000 m² and production lines occupying the same area.
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Accommodate 50+ employees in one office with a recreation area and billiards, table tennis, mini golf and mini football.
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Employ 50+ staff members who each possess at least one skill at level 100.
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