This pentium doesn't even have AVX!
That's the only thing that doesn't make sense. Everything else (more or less?) makes
some sense, not a lot, but honestly, Intel keeps some of those old fabs lines "warm", making chipsets, small batches of out-dated CPUs, for specific OEM / embedded usages, etc.
And honestly, for a business desktop, Haswell isn't THAT bad, not really even bad for gaming, if you have a 4C/4T or a 4C/8T. It's even somewhat competitive with 1st/2nd-Gen Ryzen CPUs for gaming (though, it doesn't have the core counts of Ryzen).
I think that Intel should possibly release a NEW SKU, one that hits 4.0Ghz stock speed (a trivial OC for a G3258 on a cheapo H81 board), and HAS AVX / AVX2 opcodes. That would make a neat little "killer budget CPU".
But the only problem with that is, OEM re-qualification. If OEM's already have defined and qualified platforms, that they can pull out the assembly lines out of the mothballs, then that makes them cheaper for them to be re-released as well.
What's next, TSMC supply constraints, force NVidia to re-release GTX 460 cards?
Long live Haswell and Fermi! (LOL)
Edit: Just musing, perhaps this "rumor" is made-up? And yet, the G3240 is still in production, not because Intel is capacity-constrained, and going back to 22nm technology, so much as they sometimes have "long-term stable platform" CPUs, chipsets, mobos, etc., for OEM business desktops, for longevity, and this particular CPU just happens to fall into that category, and is still being produced, and always was. IOW, they're not bringing back a "classic", it was continuously (more or less) still in production, at low levels, for their "long term stable" customers. (Sometimes, they promise availability of particular CPUs for 10 years or more. These could be one of those CPU SKUs.)
IOW, the facts may be true (that Intel is now and still producing the G3240), but the rumor (of Intel going backwards to 22nm technology, because of capacity constraints of 14nm) may be a false, BS, rumor.