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Here, operations governed by Maxwell's Equations come into play. As linear equations dominate the demands of modern AI, photonic computers excel at handling such linear operations. A striking example highlighted the potential speed difference: a matrix multiply-accumulate operation that typically takes around 100 nanoseconds on conventional GPUs can be executed in as little as 200 picoseconds on Lightmatter’s photonic processor, demonstrating a performance boost of up to a factor of a thousand.