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Gemma 4 26B runs on 13-year-old Xeon
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A 26-billion-parameter Gemma 4 mixture-of-experts model now runs at 5 tokens per second on a 13-year-old Ivy Bridge Xeon with no GPU. The patch fixes a silent fall-through bug in ik_llama.cpp that caused gibberish output on pre-AVX2 chips. The fix splits fused matmul ops into separate working paths.
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