For those that are interested, here's AMD's statement:
   http://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Christian Ehrhardt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:33 PM, WF Konynenberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I thought I saw a report earlier that AMD have given a public statement
> to the effect that their CPUs are NOT affected by this design flaw.
>
> That IMHO is a consequence of merging two issues (which each can
> manifest in various ways) into one big buzz about it.
>
> > Willemina
> >
> > On January 4, 2018 2:50:08 PM GMT+00:00, Aria Bamdad <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>I am not any kind of Linux internals wizzard. But this exploit takes
> >>>advantage of a _HARDWARD_ flaw in the Intel CPU. Linux on z does not
> >>run on
> >>>an _Intel_ chip. The story, that I've read at least, specifically
> >>mentions
> >>>that most AMD chips are not affected; nor are ARM chips. So why would
> >>the
> >>>z chip? Of course, management usually being composed of hardware
> >>illiterate
> >>>"liberal arts" majors, perhaps it would be a good idea for IBM to
> >>>explicitly announce to the work that this flaw does not affect the
> >>IBMZ
> >>>machines.
> >>
> >>
> >>You may be correct but the CERT advisory page lists the same chip
> >>manufactures as 'affected':
> >>
> >>https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584653
> >>
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