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End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

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t is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.

For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor. It’s fittingly poetic, but it is also a testament to the fact that we’ve spent the last 27 years doing what we love, covering the chips that are the lifeblood of the computing industry.

And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. Even without new articles to add to the collection, I expect that many of the things we’ve written over the past couple of decades will remain relevant for years to come – and remain accessible just as long.

The AnandTech Forums will also continue to be operated by Future’s community team and our dedicated troop of moderators. With forum threads going back to 1999 (and some active members just as long), the forums have a history almost as long and as storied as AnandTech itself (wounded monitor children, anyone?). So even when AnandTech is no longer publishing articles, we’ll still have a place for everyone to talk about the latest in technology – and have those discussions last longer than 48 hours.

 

[kruis]

End of an era.

 

[Celcius]

They used to be one of the go-to review sites for pc hardware back in the day. I thought they had already gone under but I guess now they have. RIP.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Wow this is sad. They were my top source for reviews back in the early 2010's, but I havent been there in a while

 

[Gaiff]

We lose more and more competent and reliable resources. They’re all being replaced by dumbass techtubers and Twitter users.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Very few PC hardware sites provide the level of deep technical information as this one. Will sadly miss this site.

 

[LordCBH]

Damn man…one of the best websites too….

 

[winjer]

 

[diffusionx]

I remember being on some IRC technology channel in the late 1990s and this guy pops in and said, "my name is Anand, I am 15 years old and just started this website, check it out!" Lol. It was a great site but once he left, the soul went with it.

 

[ricares81]

Damn.. truly an end of the era. For a lotta in depth pc hardware reviews i much prefer em in text based content rather than vids etc..
Sucks cuz a fair number have closed or bought up and transformed into something else over the years. Anand and techreport (when they were good) were my favs back then.

Anybody got any recommendations for similar sites?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Anandtech was the first PC hardware website I ever visited. They had great CPU and GPU reviews, as well as some of the best deep dives into various hardware architectures. They will be missed.

 

[Schmendrick]

 

[StereoVsn]

They used to be one of the go-to review sites for pc hardware back in the day. I thought they had already gone under but I guess now they have. RIP.

Wow this is sad. They were my top source for reviews back in the early 2010's, but I havent been there in a while

Yeah, I used to read that site constantly back in mid to late 2000s and into 2010s. Then the quality of their content fell off once Anand left .

Still, it’s sad to see them go.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

That sucks.

 

[Sethbacca]

End of an era. Definitely one of my go to sites back in the day.

 

[CuckooBananaNuts]

They used to be one of the go-to review sites for pc hardware back in the day. I thought they had already gone under but I guess now they have. RIP.

The site died in spirit when Anand left a decade ago. It was never the same since.

But yeah … RIP. Very sorry to see it go.

 

[RoboFu]

Thought it was someone else

 

[Chupanibre]

 

[winjer]

This was the first tech site I started to visit on a regular basis. In the late 90s, this site was breaking new ground.
For a long time, it was one of my main sources of tech information and reviews.
But after Anand left and sold the company, the quality started to drop.
The new owners didn't care much about continuing to support quality content.
The people there, did their best, but it wasn't enough.
This is a sad day for tech journalism.

 

[Rentahamster]

It wasn't the same after Anand left. It'll have its place in tech history.

 

[mansoor1980]

was anand indian?

 

[draliko]

everything regarding IT seems to collapse nowadays, maybe it's time to reset our culture

 

[Tsaki]

RIP
I liked their architecture deep dives

 

[Rentahamster]

Linus talking about it on the WAN Show.