AnandTech shuts down after covering PC and mobile hardware for over 27 years; publisher Future plans to keep AnandTech's website and articles live indefinitely
Ryan Smith, with some very sad news: — It is with great sadness … Shawn Knight / TechSpot : AnandTech ends its 27-year run in online tech publishing John Callaham / Neowin : The well regarded PC hardware site AnandTech is ending operations after over 27 years Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome : Farewell to AnandTech After Over 27 Years Thom Holwerda / OSnews : End of the road: an AnandTech farewell Adam Conway / XDA Developers : After 27 years, legendary tech site AnandTech has shut down John Gruber / Daring Fireball : AnandTech Is Closing Down — Editor-in-chief Ryan Smith: … Awful news. Hilbert Hagedoorn / Guru3D : AnandTech Closes Its Doors After 27 Years: End of an Era for Tech Reviews John Law / Lowyat.NET : Anandtech Is Officially Shutting Down After 27 Years Rui Carmo / Tao of Mac : ANANDTECH'S FINAL SIGN-OFF ➹ Threads: Sean Hollister / @seanhollister : Pouring one out for AnandTech, winking out after 27 years. Many websites share news and reviews; this one was an education. I learned half of what I think I know about computers by reading it, and a bit more carefully listening to the questions its journalists would ask in briefings. https://www.theverge.com/... Robin Sloan / @robinsloan : It's an extinction-level event out there in media—so much diversity & depth being lost, and they won't be replaced. https://www.anandtech.com/... (via @danseifert) Park / @parkbot : So much crazy news in the last 24 hours, starting with Anandtech shutting down. I read Anandtech when Anand was a high schooler and I was still in college learning my craft. It's not just traditional media that got decimated, tech publications have been affected too. https://www.anandtech.com/... @om : End of an era. And there is sadness that some of these kind of technology-first publications are going away, only to be left behind by those who specialize in the spectacle of technology. Thank you Anandtech for 27 great years of learning, and geekery. https://www.anandtech.com/... Evan / @evanrodge : It's so hard watching the web collapse and ossify into a glorified QVC channel. The Fed is (probably) going to reduce interest rates in September y'all. Polish up your resume, get a desk job, start a forum, and start the cycle over again. https://www.anandtech.com/... Hasan Ahmad / @hasanahmad : Anandtech was amazing up to 2014 . When Anand Shimpi left Anandtech for Apple, the website was only running on brand name. When Dr Ian Cutress left in 2022, it began running on fumes. This was inevitable and no one should be surprised since 2014. At least they didn't sell their quality for clicks like Tom's Hardware has Stephen Shankland / @stshank : So sad to see AnandGech shutting down. Piles of good (if gorpy) chip coverage over the years. Consolation prize: contra usual practice in this situation, the existing site will remain on the web. https://www.anandtech.com/... Jenavieve Rose / @rose_jenavieve : Damn AnandTech is shutting down. Literally no one else does in-depth hardware reviews in tech. This is a massive gap now knowledge. Like a review on AnandTech isn't just a few canned benchmarks like you'd see on a site like the Verge. These are deep dives into how the hardware works. … Dan Seifert / @danseifert : wow, this is a loss, nobody did in depth technical evaluation of hardware like AnandTech. I constantly referred to their work as a journalist and still used it to understand things afterwards. Much respect to the staff for never letting it get shittified, even after an acquisition https://www.anandtech.com/... Mastodon: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : AnandTech had a low profile in recent years, but man, I'm still sorry to see it go. I was once offered a job there and turned it down on the grounds that I wasn't worthy. — Also, many years ago when we made PC World's WorldBench benchmark available for use by others, they were one of our first customers. … @SomeGadgetGuy@techhub.social : Anandtech ends operations. The End of the Road https://www.anandtech.com/... This was an invaluable resource for me. I tried to pattern some of my phone and tablet testing on how they approached CPU reviews. — I dont know how much stronger the warnings need to be. … David Bisset / @davidbisset@phpc.social : Wow. After 27 years AnandTech closes it's doors. One of the first tech publications I remember. — #OldSchool geeks a moment of silence. — https://www.anandtech.com/... #tech Blake Patterson / @blakespot@oldbytes.space : Quite sad to hear - AnandTech is done. — I love(d) that site - so extremely valuable for its intelligent deep dives into the latest hardware of the day. — https://www.anandtech.com/... #AnandTech #tech #technews #techjournalism #journalism #websites #news #AnandLalShimpi #hardware #CPU #GPU #EOL #sad Marco Arment / @marcoarment@mastodon.social : Damn, AnandTech is stopping publication: — “Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was - nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech to wrap up its work, and let the next generation of tech journalists take their place within the zeitgeist.” … Jason Lefkowitz / @jalefkowit@vmst.io : After 27 years, AnandTech is over. — https://www.anandtech.com/... @nixCraft@mastodon.social : The end of an era. AnandTech will stop publishing articles after 27 years. — End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell https://www.anandtech.com/... Stephen Shankland / @stshank@mstdn.social : So sad to see AnandGech shutting down. Piles of good (if gorpy) chip coverage over the years. Consolation prize: contra usual practice in this situation, the existing site will remain on the web. https://www.anandtech.com/... #Journalism #Tech Ian Fogg / @ianfogg@mastodon.social : @Techmeme Hopefully keeping the site live, means there is a chance of a DPReview-style reprieve @motorola68k@electron.ninja : @Techmeme I think getting consistently blown out of the water by creators like Steve from Gamers Nexus is why these dinosaurs of paid review and low quality soft hitting, milk toast publications need to die. Alex Barredo / @Barredo@mastodon.social : I'm legitimately sad over this #anandtech — https://www.anandtech.com/... JC Palmer / @jccpalmer@toot.community : @Techmeme Future makes very strange decisions sometimes, and I worked for the company for a while. This is by far one of the worst externally-facing decisions I've seen the company make. — #RIP Anandtech @theheretic@techhub.social : @Techmeme wow that's a huge bummer Bluesky: Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur.bsky.social : Wow. Was this the last of the hardcore hardware review/analysis sites? Perhaps the writing was on the wall when Apple poached one of their lead writers to go and work on its chips. [embedded post] David Olsen / @ddsd.bsky.social : RIP to PC hardware news and in depth analysis i checked almost daily from the late 90s through to mid 00s - hoping the site has been updated since my last visit. [embedded post] X: @swiftonsecurity : A true sign of the times of a shifting landscape. One of the OG “holy crap I'm an enthusiast getting constant expert-level deep dives” and it truly taught a generation. All those early YouTubers, they partly started reading Anand. Ganesh / @ganeshts : After 14+ years and 846 bylines (including 356 long-form reviews), it is time for me to bid adieu to @anandtech ; I intend to continue coverage of computing systems in general, with a focus on storage and networking, in a different venture (stay tuned!) (1/3) Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : When I ran product and product marketing at @AMD in 2001, I remember meeting @anandshimpi for the first time. I had held an Athlon XP event at the Las Vegas drag strip that served alcohol, and I think we had to get him a special waiver because he was still a teenager. Anand, how Emily Young / @emilyayoung1 : Oh man what a week. I remember Anandtech were hiring writers around the same time I applied for my last job. They were my primary written source for tech news back then and I could have followed a very different path... I wish everyone there the best! Austin Evans / @austinnotduncan : When I met Anand (at my first AMD event back in 2013) I was so nervous I almost didn't even say hello. The work the team at Anandtech have done over the years is LEGENDARY. It's a sad day, the technical knowledge they shared set the absolute gold standard. Farewell. 🥲 @jonmasters : Wow. Farewell to @anandtech! This is definitely the end of an era. A site that set the bar for deep dives on processor uarch and benchmarking written by folks who actually understood what they were talking about. And also spawned a few great careers that will go far in this world Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : AnandTech shutting down after 27 years of in-depth hardware reviews and technical analysis is a significant loss. The internet has not been kind to journalism as a business. First by replacing scarcity with abundance, social media and now AI in search. https://www.anandtech.com/... [image] Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : This is a major bummer (and not just because I've been reading it since I was a child). The economics of the web are just so broken, I can't imagine another site like this popping up again anytime remotely soon. Richard Lai / @richardlai : End of an era. Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : There are scantily few places I trust for truly unbiased performance reviews and technical analysis of silicon. Truly the end of an era and the gap they will leave will be significant. @panzer : Thank you @anandtech M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : Well this sucks. Legendary site and run. Sascha Segan / @saschasegan : This suuuuuccccccckkkkkksssssss and I say that not only as a former tech journalist, and a reader of teach journalism, but also as someone now in the chip industry who relied on AnandTech's deep, in-depth coverage of silicon products from both us and our competitors. Cary Golomb / @carygolomb : This was THE site I would go to for reviews on new gear. Man. Bittersweet. Nothing gold can stay. Ershad Kaleebullah / @r3dash : Anandtech is one of the reasons why I wanted to be a tech journalist. It is quite shocking to read this editorial and frankly saddening too. The future of long-form, in-depth detailed pieces on the latest processors is looking extremely bleak now. Having said that, thanks for Andreas Schilling / @aschilling : Very sad to hear that. @anandtech already existed when I started this job 21 years ago and it was always a daily point of contact for me. @anandshimpi and what he started was at least in some way an inspiration for what I'm doing today! Ana Milicevic / @aexm : I need a word that describes the type of sadness at the slow disappearance of early internet Good Places especially as these are being replaced by slop in the current generation. Like watching Alexandria burn if you knew how to read back then. Ben Thompson / @benthompson : Wow. This is a site I learned from as a student and came to rely on as a professional. Salutations and sadness. @hardwarecanucks : This is a sad moments for us. Anand, the founder of AT, played a huge role in supporting HWC and guiding our testing methodologies in the early days. He, like his site, served as an inspiration and true benchmark for the entire tech review industry. Sam Byford / @345triangle : maybe the greatest ever tech site. whoever failed to ensure it continued forever should feel bad Palash Volvoikar / @whipalash : This is the definitive end of an era. As a technology journalist, AnandTech was what you looked at and ultimately aspired to be. It was, and will remain the benchmark. Just happy that Future PLC will keep the site live if not active. Ryan Smith / @ryansmithat : There simply isn't enough space on Twitter to say what needs to be said. I've written for AnandTech for nearly two decades, and I've enjoyed every second of it. Sadly, we've reached the end of the road. But I thank all of our readers over the years; you've made it worth it Varun Krishnan / @varunkrish : This is such sad news for the world of tech journalism. It is not surprising as @anandshimpi quit about 10 years ago. But @RyanSmithAT @IanCutress @ganeshts continued the legacy quite well. Terrible end to what would be the best site for the geeks. Inspired so many of us to take Ayman DogGeek / @geek4dogs : @Techmeme @RyanSmithAT A huge loss for the tech community. AnandTech set a high bar for hardware reviews. Glad their archives will remain accessible. @anandtech : After 27 years of providing in-depth coverage of the amazing world of PC and mobile hardware, AnandTech is saying farewell. We want to thank everyone from the AnandTech community for their support and passion for what we've done over the years https://www.anandtech.com/... Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : say sike right now Ncolás González F. / @nicgonfar : @anandtech Really sad. There goes away, another pillar of excellence in tech journalism. Farewell, and wish you the best to the entire staff (current an past) for the next thing! @anandtech : AnandTech will stay online so readers can continue to access articles from our archive, and the forums will remain active to serve our community. Our sister site Tom's Hardware, will also continue to publish all the latest news, reviews and more from the PC world. Thank you all [image] LinkedIn: Georgiana Comsa : AnandTech is shutting down today after 27 years. I have been in the U.S. for exactly 27 years and I have known them since Silicon Valley was all about chips … Hyoun Park : RIP to one of the great tech media sites of our era, AnandTech and 27 years of chip coverage. I remember reading this site when I was starting … Ranbir Mahapatra : I am sad that the AnandTech will be sunset in coming days. 🙁. I have referred to it less more recently, but early in the days when I was a student … Patrick Moorhead : When I ran product and product marketing at AMD in 2001, I remember meeting Anand Shimpi for the first time. … Anil Nanduri : End of an era indeed! AnandTech set a new benchmark in technical and architectural publications and were always thorough in their analysis. … Matthew S Smith : Wow. First Reviewed is shut down, and now Anandtech! It's a rough week for tech journalism. — This hits especially close to home for me. … Jon Masters : Wow. Farewell to AnandTech! This is definitely the end of an era. A site that set the bar for deep dives on processor uarch and benchmarking written … Forums: Hacker News : AnandTech Farewell r/france : AnandTech shuts down after 27 years r/DataHoarder : AnandTech is shutting down! - Anything we can do to archive the site? 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