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]
Anand Lal Shimpi | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 26, 1982 |
| Occupation | Employee of Apple Founder and former CEO of AnandTech |
| Alma mater | William G. Enloe High School North Carolina State University |
| Genre | Technology journalism |
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]
Early life
Anand was born to Lalchand Shimpi, an Indian-born computer science professor at St Augustine's University,[3] 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.[5][6][non-primary source needed]
Career
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]
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,[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]
Publications
Anand is the author of the book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (ISBN 0-7897-2626-2) [14] and has a regular column in Computer Power user (CPU) Magazine called Anand's Corner.[citation needed]