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vLLM PR adding native HIP W4A16 kernel was merged

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14 Oct
cuda, hip: GDN chunked kernel by am17an · Pull Request #29353 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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18 May
llama.cpp MTP support landed - Qwen3.6 27B at 2.44× on a Strix Halo, 2.17× on a RTX 3090 rig

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>PR #22673 (commit 4f13cb7) landed MTP speculative decoding in mainline llama.cpp on May 16. I tested it on two separate rigs.</p> <p>Qwen3.6 27B,

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25 Apr
CUDA: reduce MMQ stream-k overhead by JohannesGaessler · Pull Request #22298 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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1 Apr
llama : rotate activations for better quantization by ggerganov · Pull Request #21038 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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29 Mar
Optimize MOE GEMV kernel for BS > 1. by gaugarg-nv · Pull Request #20905 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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7 May
feat: Add Mimo v2.5 model support by AesSedai · Pull Request #22493 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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10 May
NCCL-Free Tensor Parallelism on Dual Blackwell PCIe llama.cpp b9095 released!

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>b9095 finally makes -sm tensor work on dual consumer Blackwell PCIe GPUs without NCCL</p> <p>If youre on dual Blackwell gpus this look like it

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13 Apr
FYI, Step 3.5 Flash has better perf and context is 1/4 the price in llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

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