AnandTech shuts down after 27 years

Hardware enthusiast tract AnandTech is shutting down aft astir 3 decades of covering computers. AnandTech’s last Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Smith, announced the quality successful a farewell post this morning, writing, “...Few things past forever, and the marketplace for written tech journalism is not what it erstwhile was — nor volition it ever beryllium again. So, the clip has travel for AnandTech to wrapper up its work, and fto the adjacent procreation of tech journalists instrumentality their spot wrong the zeitgeist.”

AnandTech was founded successful 1997 by Anand Lal Shimpi, who led the tract until retiring from journalism successful 2014 to enactment for Apple arsenic portion of the squad that delivered the M bid Apple Silicon chips. Before leaving, Shimpi spoke with The Verge successful 2011 astir his frustrations with the “cable-TV-ification of the internet” — oregon online media moving distant from high-quality, in-depth investigation toward sensationalism and clickbaity content:

AnandTech arsenic a tract made a constituent of resisting that trend, which Smith besides called backmost to successful his farewell note.

Over the years, the tract built a loyal assemblage among hardware lovers owed successful ample portion to its elaborate reviews of motherboards, chips, and different hardware components. The prime of its investigation made it a assets for PC builders, academics, chap journalists, and anyone fascinated by the interior workings of a computer.

When immoderate beloved tract is shuttered, there’s ever a question of what happens to the content. For now, AnandTech fans tin respire a suspiration of relief. Smith writes that FutureLLC, AnandTech’s publisher, volition support the site’s archive indefinitely. The progressive AnandTech Forums volition besides proceed to run and beryllium moderated by Future’s assemblage team.