Research & KnowledgeEvent: September 7, 2026
IBM announced that heterogenous inference using Spark for prefill and MAC for decode will be the big unblock for local AI.
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“Heterogenous inference - eg using sparks for prefill and mac for decode - is going to be the big unblock for local AI”
— Adil Islam|IBM team
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