Intel stock traded at a split-adjusted $21.58 on Nov. 1, 1999. The stock trades at $20.54 today. This means that the stock is down 4.8% since it joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Intel has been a Dow component since 1999, so the move will bring its 25-year run to an end. Shares of the chip stock sold off on the news, falling 1.8% in the after-hours session.

Intel also stopped developing its own discrete GPUs in 1999 to focus on producing weaker integrated GPUs for its CPUs. By the time it returned to the discrete GPU market in 2022, the market was ...

Not only that but, to Intel's shame, AMD's Athlon later beat the Pentium III to the 1GHz finish line at the end of 1999. Back to the Intel Pentium III.