Anand Retires From Anandtech

Anand Shimpi, the founder of one the most respected and popular tech sites on the web, has just announced his retirement.

Many of us on this website enjoy reading tech reviews and news as a source of knowledge for PC hardware, and more recently to get in depth coverage of mobile devices. Few sites are as thorough as Anandtech and I've enjoyed learning about new graphics cards every year as well as other PC parts.

Anand started the website in 1998 and has directed its growth towards becoming the fantastic resource it is today. I'm sure many of us visit Anandtech and that a few will want to join me in wishing him a happy retirement and good luck in his future endeavors.

No kidding. Happy retirement Anand!

His site is one of my favourite resources. I've used it as a resource on many occasions and it is in my regular rotation of sites to check daily. The hardware reviews on Anandtech are second to none.

Damn. Now where am I going to find a thirty page review of the latest Apple hardware?

@monetarydread: The site's going strong!

I don't go on Anandtech often but when I do the articles and reviews are always extremely thorough and in-depth. Happy retirement to guy who made it happen,

I have respect for Anandtech in that they have not gone down the route of Arstechnica or -- worse -- Tom's Hardware Guide (which sunk so low as to do product and news updates once a day featuring a different busty female model presenting it each day).

Hmm I wonder if this is somehow related to Brian Klug disappearing from Anandtech

Wow, that's crazy. I hope Anandtech keeps their standards high; it's one of the few sites where I implicitly trust their reviews.

@andorski: If you trust what Anand says, the site is now staffed with specialists who are all more knowledgeable about their areas of expertise than Anand is at any specific tech product category so it should continue to be of a high standard.

Ok so Anand and Brian have left for Apple. This blows my mind

http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/founder-anand-shimpi-latest-apple-hire-from-hardware-review-site-anandtech/

@eggshell: The best of luck to him if true, could be an interesting PR role.

Anandtech is still a staple site in the daily web crawl, hopefully the frequency of deep articles can increase now things have settled down, it's been a bit slow lately. As long as the quality remains and the insane screen-filling video ads stay away (looking at you, Ars Technica/Wired) i'll keep on going there.

I wonder if he'll still wear a suit all the time at Apple, that seems opposed to the corporate culture over there.