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Silicon Architect

Demo available

BiteMe GamesDiscovered Sep 21, 2026

About the game

An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.

Original Steam description

Step into the shoes of a 2000's era CPU engineer at BinTel and develop your own CPUs in this incremental idler. Combine CPU components, run benchmarks, gather telemetry to upgrade, and repeat. Develop new components, expand to improved socket types and shape the future of computing. 

Design your CPU

Build your own CPU to beat the benchmarks, based on real-world components and designs.

Improve your components

Each run provides you with telemetry data, which you can use to improve your CPU's development.

Develop new sockets

Release new CPU sockets to gain massive generational uplifts.

Features

  • 10+ unique CPU components, leading to infinite custom CPU layouts

  • Low in resource consumption, doesn't actually benchmark your PC

  • Nostalgic Windows XP theming

  • Vibe to the Frutiger-themed soundtrack

  • Online benchmarking leaderboards

Demo and release information

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