Written by https://twitter.com/never_released , reviewed and corrected by Alex Ionescu
On January 4th, 3 separate vulnerabilities were released, the two first ones being named Spectre (Variant 1 and 2) and the third one being Meltdown (Variant 3).
Intel CPUs are affected by all vulnerabilities, as are Apple A-series CPUs used on iOS devices, nVidia Tegra X2, the ARM Cortex-A75 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 CPUs. CPUs with speculative execution from other manufacturers (other ARM "big" cores, AMD CPUs, PowerPC, ...) are affected by Spectre but not Meltdown.
In-order CPUs (such as ARM Cortex-A7 or ARM Cortex-A53, as are Atoms before 2013) are not affected by Meltdown and Spectre.