1. Alumnus William M. Holt, a Senior Vice-President of Intel, also mentioned in a campus talk on September 27, 2007, entitled "R&D to Deliver Practical Results: Extending Moore's Law" that Intel hires more PhD graduates from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign than from any other university in the country.

Alumnus William M. Holt, ein Senior Vice-President von Intel, erklärte in seiner Rede „R&D to Deliver Practical Results: Extending Moore's Law“ vor Studenten am 27. September 2007 ebenfalls, dass Intel mehr Doktoranden der University of Illinois einstellt, als von jeder anderen US-Universität.