Maybe it's the language barrier since I'm not a native English speaker but where I'm from "brand new" means something different, it means something that just came onto the market very recently, not that came on the market 10+ years ago but was never opened from the packaging. That's no longer means "brand new", it means "old but never been used". Very different things.

So when you tell me "brand new 32 bit Celeron" it is understood as "just came onto the market".

Am I right or wrong with this understanding?

>My point is this stuff is still in play in a lot of places.

I spent ~15 years in embedded and can't concur on the "still in play in a lot of places" part, but I'm not denying some users can't still exists out there, however I'm sure we can probably count them on very few fingers since Intel's 32 bit Embedded chips never had much traction to begin with.

I've never understood 'brand new' to imply anything about freshness. But according to Mirriam-Webster it means both in different, but very similar, contexts.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brand-new