Friday, August 30th 2024
AnandTech Shuts Down, an Icon of Tech News and Reviews Rides into the Sunset
AnandTech, a tech publication that practically everyone in the computing industry is aware of, announced that it is shutting down. Named after its founder, Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech was founded in 1997 by the then 15-year-old Anand, and went on to become one of the top sources of PC hardware and gaming news and reviews, particularly in the golden age of PC (the 1990s and the 2000s). It is one of the key sites that inspired the founding of TechPowerUp. Anand and his crew have remained our friends and peers throughout this time.
Some of the biggest tectonic shifts in the tech world were parsed through Anand's keyboard. At age 32, Anand left the publication he founded to pursue a job with Apple, handing it to his friend and editor, Ryan Smith, and publisher Purch, which was later acquired by Future PLC. The site would continue to maintain the highest standards of reporting and evaluation for the following decade. AnandTech says that Future PLC will keep the site up and running, so all of its invaluable content remains accessible. We will dearly miss you, AnandTech.
Some of the biggest tectonic shifts in the tech world were parsed through Anand's keyboard. At age 32, Anand left the publication he founded to pursue a job with Apple, handing it to his friend and editor, Ryan Smith, and publisher Purch, which was later acquired by Future PLC. The site would continue to maintain the highest standards of reporting and evaluation for the following decade. AnandTech says that Future PLC will keep the site up and running, so all of its invaluable content remains accessible. We will dearly miss you, AnandTech.
151 Comments on AnandTech Shuts Down, an Icon of Tech News and Reviews Rides into the Sunset
www.anandtech.com/show/42/amd-k6-review
Those were the good old times when you could run either AMD, Intel or Cyrix CPUs on the same socket, on the same Motherboards.
The best.
It's a shame to see such places closing down while these more modern "theoretical comparison" type sites continue to survive. You know the types of ones I'm referring to (bottleneck calculators, UserBenchmark, and other theoretical only comparison websites). I wonder what this says about us? As the years pass, are we becoming more lazy, uninformed, and just wanting a dumbed down, singular number answer, even if it's very prone to being wrong, instead of actually learning and informing ourselves? Just another example of how things change over the years, I suppose?
lol I don't include PcPer in that list.
Which is easy to use against them lol.
Just put a nugget of critical information in a 10 page document and its too many pages to read. "I'm not reading that its way too long"
Literally takes 5 mins to read...
TechPowerUp better not go anywhere! For some reason I just can't get into youtube video reviews, there's just something about charts, graphs and text that let me really focus in on a topic. Someone speaking the same information aloud just doesn't hold somehow.
We are in the tiktok generation though unfortunately.
The other issue is a lot of people use ad blockers depriving written only sites of revenue. It's the reason I support tpu. I hate ads but feel they deserve some revenue which is less than a coffee out here per month....
:-|
web.archive.org/web/20240830133422/https://www.anandtech.com/
More then once I was told by Ryan to "stop bringing negativity into the comments" when I asked when the GPU benches were coming back, when we'd been told for two years they were coming back. Red flag? That's the whole Moscow parade right there!
Hardocp and Anandtech will still live on with their forums active.
But why don't they begin to offer AMD Radeons, then, like ASRock, Acer and XFX?
I was just so intrigued by all this new technology year after year. Admittedly, the leaps and bounds have slowed down considerably, but it's still quite interesting to be apart of the continuing evolution of computers.