Manufacture your very first working chip.

Double the transistor count in your flagship CPU compared to the previous generation.

Create a CPU with TDP exceeding 500W. Hope your cooling budget is unlimited.

Push TDP past the 1000W mark. You're not building a CPU, you're taming a star.

Build your own fabrication plant and start making chips for yourself.

Become a contract manufacturer and produce CPUs under other companies' brands.

Own office premises with a total area of ​​over 10,000 m² and production lines occupying the same area.

Accommodate 50+ employees in one office with a recreation area and billiards, table tennis, mini golf and mini football.

Employ 50+ staff members who each possess at least one skill at level 100.

Release a next-gen CPU that gets outsold by your own previous generation.

Research every single technology available in the game.

Start a new game in 1986 and reach the year 2026 without going bankrupt.

Enter a pre-bankruptcy state. Creditors are circling.

Go completely bankrupt. Every empire falls someday.

Hit a total headcount of 1,000 employees placed across your offices.

Design and bring to market 5 or more distinct microarchitectures.

Develop a processor with 2 or more cores, starting your game from 1986.

Grow your balance from under 15M $ up to 1B $

Achieve a CPU clock speed of 7+ GHz. Liquid nitrogen not included.

Without designing a single architecture, accumulate office space of > 20000 m² starting with < 15M $ funds.

Without designing a single architecture, earn 100M $ purely from contract fabrication.

Research and develop a bleeding-edge 1nm process node architecture.