diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
index 92dfbc2d..f6374f78 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/llamafile/sgemm.cpp
@@ -2680,13 +2680,25 @@ class tinyBLAS_PPC {
             __builtin_mma_xxsetaccz(&acc_0);
             vec_t vec_A[4] {0}, vec_B[4] = {0};
             for (int l=0; l<k; l+=4) {
-                if (RN >= 4 && RM == 1) {
+                /* 'GEMV Forwarding' concept is used in first two conditional loops.
+                 * when one of the matrix has a single row/column, the elements are
+                 * broadcasted, instead of using packing routine to prepack the
+                 * matrix elements.
+                 */
+                if (RM == 1) {
                     TA* a = const_cast<TA*>(A+(ii)*lda+l);
-                    packTranspose<vector float>(B+(jj*ldb)+l, ldb, 4, 4, (TA*)vec_B);
+                    packTranspose<vector float>(B+(jj*ldb)+l, ldb, RN, 4, (TA*)vec_B);
                     vec_A[0] = (vec_t)vec_xl(0,a);
                     vec_A[1] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TA*)&vec_A+1));
                     vec_A[2] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TA*)&vec_A+2));
                     vec_A[3] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TA*)&vec_A+3));
+                } else if (RN == 1) {
+                    packTranspose<vector float>(A+(ii*lda)+l, lda, RM, 4, (TA*)vec_A);
+                    TB* b = const_cast<TB*>(B+(jj)*ldb+l);
+                    vec_B[0] = (vec_t)vec_xl(0,b);
+                    vec_B[1] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TB*)&vec_B+1));
+                    vec_B[2] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TB*)&vec_B+2));
+                    vec_B[3] = (vec_t)vec_splats(*((TB*)&vec_B+3));
                 } else {
                     packTranspose<vector float>(A+(ii*lda)+l, lda, RM, 4, (TA*)vec_A);
                     packTranspose<vector float>(B+(jj*ldb)+l, ldb, RN, 4, (TA*)vec_B);
@@ -2790,8 +2802,10 @@ bool llamafile_sgemm(const struct ggml_compute_params * params, int64_t m, int64
     assert(params->ith < params->nth);
 
     // only enable sgemm for prompt processing
+#if !defined(__MMA__)
     if (n < 2)
         return false;
+#endif
 
     if (Ctype != GGML_TYPE_F32)
         return false;