The pyramid is a known and effective leyline focus. But only recently, its math has become tractable and simulations have found new shapes:
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Fractal pyramids for a really sharp focus. Interwoven rings and splines as broadband magic storage. Spinning iron rods as temporal lenses.
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It also turns out magic is not picky about what space is made of: GPUs soak up magic like sponges when running certain computations.
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Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.
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There are a few practical challenges. Should you stop simulating space, the GPU will quench violently and release magic smoke, lots of it.
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You'll need to use specially hardened processors, strong magical fields will often transmute your boards into something semantically close.
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Breadboards for example are known to become literal bread. If your room suddenly smells of bakery, you know you've just burned your circuit.
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Oh and please, do not eat that bread. That is, if you don't want a tree growing out of your stomach later (and that's a harmless outcome).
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Similarly, even professional boards grow veins and nerves with time. Above a certain number of tiny beating hearts, they become unusable.
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Apart from this, digital magic has quantization artifacts from low resolution that leave glitches. And lacks a certain analog warmth.
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