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Anand Lal Shimpi
Born (1982-06-26) June 26, 1982 (age 42)
OccupationEmployee of Apple
Founder and former CEO of AnandTech
Alma materWilliam G. Enloe High School
North Carolina State University
GenreTechnology journalism

Anand Lal Shimpi (born June 26, 1982)[1] is a former tech journalist and American businessman who retired at the age of 32 [2]from the publishing industry to join the hardware division at Apple Inc. He is primarily known as the founder of the technology website AnandTech. It was a hardware news/review site which started from a review of very small motherboard review which was hosted on GeoCities.[3] At that time Anand was just 14 years old and over a period of 17 years it grew to be one of the most respected sites for tech reviews.[4] He also wrote a book in 2001, named " The Anandtech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware". [5]

Early life

Anand was born to Lalchand Shimpi, an Indian-born computer science professor at St Augustine's University,[6] and Razieh Shimpi, 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.

Career

He started AnandTech in 1997 at the age of 14. 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.[7] 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. AnandTech started as a site that mainly reviewed motherboards and soon added CPUs, video cards, cases, notebooks, Macs, smartphones, tablets and other hardwares.[8]

On August 30, 2014, he announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple,[9] and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor.[10]

Publications

Anand is also the author of the book AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (ISBN 0-7897-2626-2) [11]and has a regular column in CPU Magazine called Anand's Corner.

References

  1. ^ "Anand Shimpi". computerhope.com. Computer Hope. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Chiappetta, Marco. "Anand Lal Shimpi Announces Retirement, Departs AnandTech Heads To Apple". Forbes. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  3. ^ "AnandTech Founder Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From Writing". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  4. ^ "AnandTech Founder Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From Writing". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  5. ^ "Anand Lal Shimpi". www.amazon.ca. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  6. ^ https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/1999/12/01/271048/index.htm
  7. ^ Heaton, Jeff (June 2006). Build a Computer from Scratch. Heaton Research, Inc. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-9773206-2-2. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  8. ^ Shimpi, Anand Lal. "The Road Ahead". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  9. ^ Paczkowski, John. "Veteran Tech Journalist Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple". Re/code. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  10. ^ Anand Lal Shimpi. "The Road Ahead". Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  11. ^ "Anand Lal Shimpi Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'The Anandtech Guide To Pc Gaming Hardware'". www.biblio.com. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
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  1. The Road Ahead by Anand Lal Shimpi
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