TIL that during Computex 2001 Intel Marketers being unhappy with Taiwanese chipset supplier's (VIA) encroachment upon on Intel's motherboard chipset business, cut VIA's booth balloons on the showroom

how petty. Spectacular how far Intel has fallen 🥹

source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/778

video on Intel's heyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSAuYCcs_o