It comes down to the lack of resources for a platform that is rarely used for new installs. The number of machines running 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 11.x and 12.x are

It comes down to the lack of resources for a platform that is rarely used for new installs. The number of machines running 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 11.x and 12.x are the same as other Tier 2 platforms, such as ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC and MIPS. AMD64 CPUs have been available since 2003.