The global photonic chips for AI market encompass the design, fabrication, and commercialization of photonic integrated circuits specifically engineered to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. These chips leverage photons, or particles of light, for computation and data transmission, offering a paradigm shift from traditional electron-based processors. By performing calculations at the speed of light, they provide substantial improvements in processing speed, data throughput, and energy efficiency, directly addressing the computational bottlenecks of complex neural networks. The market includes components like modulators, waveguides, and detectors integrated onto a single chip, created to perform core AI operations such as matrix-vector multiplication with minimal latency and power consumption.