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Anand Lal Shimpi
American technology journalist and founder of AnandTech From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 wrote a book in 2001, titled The Anandtech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware.[2] He retired at the age of 32 from the publishing industry to join the hardware division at Apple Inc. in 2014.[3]
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Shimpi started AnandTech when he was 15 years old.[4] The site originally focused on motherboard reviews and was hosted on GeoCities.[5] Over a period of 17 years, the site grew to be one of the most respected sites for tech reviews.[5]
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Early life
Anand Shimpi was born to Lalchand Shimpi, an Indian-born computer science professor at St Augustine's University,[4] and Razieh, an Iranian-born teacher in Raleigh, NC. When Shimpi was in third grade, his father enrolled him in a computer course. He built his first PC in sixth grade and soon began building PCs for others. He is a graduate of William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts and North Carolina State University with a degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis on microprocessor architecture and design.[6][7][non-primary source needed]
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Career
Shimpi started AnandTech in 1997 at the age of 15.[4][8] 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 and receiving praise from spokespersons at AMD and Intel.[4][9] 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] He reportedly was able to get his hands on an AMD K6-III before any other reviewers.[4]
In 2013 he was named as an expert in the BBC's coverage of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.[10]
On August 30, 2014, he announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple's hardware technologies division[8][11][12] and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor.[13]
On February 15, 2020, Bloomberg reported that Anand sent confidential documents to Gerard Williams III after the latter had left Apple to form NUVIA.[14]
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Publications
Shimpi is the author of the book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (ISBN 0-7897-2626-2).[15]
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