The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel had informed select customers about the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities. What's news, however, is that somehow the Chinese Government could have gotten to know about the vulnerabilities much before the US Government did.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-alerted-select-corporations-about-Meltdown-Spectre-China-speculated-to-have-known-about-it-before-the-US.280436.0.html