Hardware enthusiast site AnandTech is shutting down after nearly three decades of covering computers. AnandTech’s final editor-in-chief, Ryan Smith, announced the news in a farewell post this morning, writing, “…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.”
AnandTech was founded in 1997 by Anand Lal Shimpi, who led the site until retiring from journalism in 2014 to work for Apple as part of the team that delivered the M series Apple Silicon chips. Before leaving, Shimpi spoke with The Verge in 2011 about his…