The short of it is that AMD haven’t “avoided it”. Speculative execution side channels aren’t one vulnerability but rather a whole family of vulnerabilities. Thi

The short of it is that AMD haven’t “avoided it”. Speculative execution side channels aren’t one vulnerability but rather a whole family of vulnerabilities. This particular one is (apparently) Intel-only, same as Meltdown was, but AMD was also vulnerable to the original Spectre.