Any new commercial/industrial platforms on 32-bit / x86?

1 points by russfink ↗ HN
Good day, all - are there any commercial/industrial computing-capable platforms - PLCs, hospital X-ray machines, industrial robotic systems, chemical centrifuges, etc. - currently being sold with 32-bit x86 architectures? I'm asking because I'm considering creating a Linux-based bootable rescue image and am finding that all the major distros that support booting on Intel/AMD architectures have dropped 32-bit support sometime around the year 2014. Does that mean there's no longer a need for bootable 32-bit distros among all recent / actively sold modern equipment? If you have examples of equipment in use (ie, a need for such a rescue distro), I'd be grateful. Thank you for your time.

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Sounds like you're asking about embedded systems that don't touch the internet. If so, 2014-era software shouldn't pose a problem.