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I've been searching for it all over the internet, and just can't find any information about it. I remember there being news stories about it, and how it's going to change everything, and now I can't find a single mention of it on the internet. What gives? Does anyone have any info about it?

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[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This sounds like it could've been a story about a featured build on CPU magazine. Maybe some cube shaped open air PC and how it was going to change the future of case design?

As far as things that are going to change everything performance wise maybe 3D caches? I could see there being promotional art of that with a blue cube showing how memory layers are stacked.

[–] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It wasn't an artist's randition, it was photos. And it wasn't a case, it looked like a component. Or maybe an entire computer in one, like the Raspberry Pi? I don't know, man, it was a cube, I'm not a scientist.

[–] YewEyeOwe31@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still use a Tesseract Deepcool case for my home PC that I got in the mid 2010s. Nothing groundbreaking, could have more fan slots. It didn’t change the world, but it did open my world to building PCs and picking parts, so that’s cool.

100% not what you are talking about.

[–] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That is a PC case of an enjoyable aesthetic.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What decade would this have been from?

"dark blue color"
"Tesseract was a perfect cube, all sides even. It had different components on different sides, exposed circuitry."
"It had circuits and other parts like a graphics card does, or a motherboard. The circuit board was a dark blue"

Was it some kind of PC, like the open frame PC cases that started in the... 2000s I want to say?

When CPU/RAM/GPU overclocking was a thing?

Completely different kind of computing architecture, i.e. not x86?

Maybe Steve Jobs' NeXT?

[–] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The pictures could've been just some prop or something. I don't know. Both articles I remember used the same pictures. I remember several photos from various angles. It was a new thing less than a decade ago. So 2010s would be the decade. It was definitely new kind of physical structure, but I'm not sure about actual computing architecture as in software side.

[–] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that an insult or just a misguided attempt to help? How is a schizophrenic theory a piece of computer hardware?

[–] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100% misguided attempt, no offense intended and im sorry that i missed the mark that bad, for my part I'll say more in the future about why. I did think it was a long shot but that's exactly the kind of thing i could have included but didn't. i hope you track it down and again, so sorry, not my intention to insult or be rude or otherwise waste your time

[–] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No problem. I'm a bit sensitive on getting insulted, since insults is how a certain person communicates with me. I was raised on being insulted, so finding an aggressive subtext in a normal statement isn't a problem to me :)

And I'm like 90% sure the artifact has been identified: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~zhangyt/research/micpro2017.pdf and https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15577. Or if this isn't the thing, it's extremely close to the thing I remember.

But if you're a fan of schizophrenic theories such as the famed Time Cube, I know just the place.