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Anand Lal Shimpi (born June 26, 1982)[1] is a former tech journalist and American businessman who is the founder of the technology website AnandTech, a hardware news/review site. He retired at the age of 32 from the publishing industry to join the hardware division at Apple Inc.[citation needed] He wrote a book in 2001, titled "The Anandtech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware".[2]
Shimpi started AnandTech when he was 15 years old.[3] The site originally focused on motherboard reviews, and was hosted on GeoCities.[4] Over a period of 17 years, the site grew to be one of the most respected sites for tech reviews.[4]
Anand started AnandTech in 1997 at the age of 15.[7][3] He called it Anand's Hardware Tech Page. He first started reviewing motherboards; later he would go on to review CPUs, hard drives, RAM, and other computer components. His tech reviews were in-depth and thorough, making it the preferred site for hardware engineers and enthusiasts, receiving praise from spokespersons at AMD and Intel.[3][8] He served as its editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2014. AnandTech grew from a small GeoCities website in 1997 to a 50 million page view per month publication as of July 2005[update]. AnandTech started as a site that mainly reviewed motherboards and soon added CPUs, video cards, cases, notebooks, Macs, smartphones, tablets and other hardwares.[9][non-primary source needed] He reportedly was able to get his hands on an AMD K6-III before any other reviewers.[3]
On August 30, 2014, he announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple's hardware technologies division,[11][7][12] and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor.[9]
On February 15, 2020, Bloomberg reported that Anand sent confidential documents to Gerard Williams III after the latter had left Apple to form NUVIA.[13]
Anand is the author of the book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (ISBN0-7897-2626-2) [14] and has a regular column in Computer Power user (CPU) Magazine called Anand's Corner.[citation needed]
