Even today there are some minority 32-bit products around in the PC world where the Oracle Java VM can run. For example the HP Stream 7 tablet runs Windows 8.1

Even today there are some minority 32-bit products around in the PC world where the Oracle Java VM can run. For example the HP Stream 7 tablet runs Windows 8.1 32-bit edition on x86 Intel Atom Z3735G (CPU is x86-64 capable). It can only support the 32-bit JVM.