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Anand Lal Shimpi | |
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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 |
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]
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]
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 ]
Shimpi started AnandTech in 1997 at the age of 15. [8] [4] 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 [11] [8] [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]
Shimpi is the author of the book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware ( ISBN 0-7897-2626-2) [15] and has a regular column in Computer Power user (CPU) Magazine called Anand's Corner.[ citation needed ]