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…in ordinary digital memory. A simple accounting for why raw operations-per-watt numbers are not directly comparable across any of the four approaches in this piece is worth writing out once: $E_{\text{op}} = E_{\text{core}} + E_{\text{periphery}} + E_{\text{I/O}}$. where $E_{\text{core}}$ is the energy of the operation itself — the multiply-accumulate, the interference pattern, the qubit gate — and $E_{\text{periphery}}$ and $E_{\text{I/O}}$ are the data-converter, laser-and-detector, cryogenic, or spike-routing overhead surrounding it. A headline figure reporting only…

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