William M. Holt
Senior Vice President
General Manager, Technology and Manufacturing Group
Intel Corporation

Bill Holt is senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Technology and Manufacturing Group. He is responsible for research and development in the areas of wafer process, package assembly and test, and design & technology computer aided tools. He is also responsible for corporate quality assurance and manufacturing equipment development.

Holt began his Intel career in DRAM development in 1974 where he worked as a development engineer and then manager until 1985. He was involved with Intel DRAMs from the 4K through the 1MB generations in product engineering, test engineering, circuit design and CAD tool development. He then assumed responsibility for the definition of design rules, devices and test chips for logic technologies. Holt was the program manager for the development of Intel's first BiCMOS process. He managed factory automation development for the 0.35 µm generation.

In 1999, Holt became co-director of the Logic Technology Development organization, which is responsible for the research, definition and development of new generations of logic technologies, advanced circuit design, advanced patterning, test technology and process and circuit simulation tools.

Holt was appointed vice president in January 1999. In 2003, he was elected corporate vice president. Holt has been the general manager of TMG since March, 2005 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2006.

Under Holt's direction, Intel has led the industry in introducing revolutionary transistor technologies such as 90nm strained silicon in 2003 and 45nm high-k metal gate in 2007. Intel continues to lead the industry in high volume ramp of new technology nodes, such as 65nm in 2005, 45nm in 2007 and 32nm in 2009.

Holt is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1974. He received his master's in electrical engineering from the University of Santa Clara in 1979. Holt received the University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007 for technical contribution to development of Intel technologies and leadership in the microelectronics industry.