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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by strmpnk on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:05PM (#16067408)
The patch that was under question was related to a workaround for Meltdown, which makes AMD's note regarding the lack of necessity in agreement with the paper.

The Spectre paper seems to be a bit less specific on how platforms might differ under explotation but very clearly states that it was verified to be possible. Workarounds for that problem will likely be much more application specific from what I can tell, but I have only skimmed that paper so far.

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by strmpnk on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:34PM (#16067527)
Update: AMD has an official statement with a clear outline of the discussed vulnerabilities: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by gshulegaard on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:54AM (#16068354)
Also wanted to point out that AMD's official statement was much better IMO.
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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by gshulegaard on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:47AM (#16068332)
Finally clarified this on my own and came back here to update a final time...but yeah this is the right answer.
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