Anandtech closes after 27 years

Anandtech, one of the most important hardware websites in the world, if not the most, says goodbye after 27 years. Founded in 1997 by Anand Lal Shimpiwas one of the pioneers of the sector, managing to break with the idea that only traditional written media could be profitable and creating a professional team that has created analyses, reviews and articles with a serious and technical approach.

Although No more content will be published on the page, Anandtech will remain accessible indefinitely after its publisher, Future, committed to maintaining the site and the forums.

According to what editors of the media have told us, with whom we have a good relationship after having coincided in events and trips of all kinds over the years, Anandtech’s situation has been complicated for a couple of yearswith a shortage of resources that even led to the need to lay off editors despite having good financial performance.

The situation has been going on for a long time and is related to the publisher that owns Anandtech in recent years. It was in 2014 when the founder of Anandtech, Anadn Lal Shimpi, left the company to leave Ryan Smith in charge. Shortly after, the publisher Purch – which already had Tom’s Hardware under its belt – took over Anandtech, taking two technology media outlets in the same sector under its command. Later, in 2018, British publisher Future acquired Purch and all of his publications.

Although Anandtech has always been a reference in the world of technological journalism, becoming the most important hardware website in the world thanks to its seriousness and technical approach; Tom’s Hardware’s more generalist approach has made it more economically efficient. This situation, in a large publishing house with several media outletsmakes resources focus on the largest medium, relegating the “smallest” to the background.

The publisher has not been able to get as much financial return from Anandtech – a much more technical and specialised outlet – as from Tom’s Hardware – a more generalist outlet. Added to this is the fact that the current head of Anandtech, Ryan Smith, had to answer to the current head of Tom’s Hardware, which has led to a reduction in resources for them by giving preference to their own publication, which led to budget difficulties even to be able to cover major events such as Computex.

All this has led to the inevitable situation the closure of Anandtech after 27 years of being a benchmark in the sector.

In the farewell postRyan Smith has taken the opportunity to recall the entire history of the media and the most important editors who have worked there, thanking both them and their readers for their support throughout the life of the site. Not without first taking the opportunity to launch an allegation against what they call the “Cable TV of the web”, which is nothing more than the current trend of prioritizing clickbait over the quality of news and articles, calling for continuing the fight against it and perhaps sending a message to those responsible for the closure of Anandtech.

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