Intel's response was legitimately stupid. Given that only one of the vulnerabilities exclusively affects them, they could have avoided some huge backlash while people also hemmed and hawed over Spectre affecting everything. Instead, they decided to try and go in to pre-emptive damage control mode based on their last happy little accident, and fucked it all up.
As someone with AMD hardware who was subject to abuse by Intel fanboys, I am currently adequately smug.
edit: accidentally a word