Английская Википедия:Anand Lal Shimpi
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Anand Lal Shimpi (born June 26, 1982)[1] is a former tech journalist and American businessman who retired at the age of 32[2] from the publishing industry to join the hardware division at Apple Inc. He is primarily known as the founder of the technology website AnandTech, a hardware news/review site which started as motherboard reviews hosted on GeoCities.[3] At that time Anand was just 14 years old and over a period of 17 years it grew to be one of the most respected sites for tech reviews.[4] He also wrote a book in 2001, named "The Anandtech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware".[5]
Early life
Anand was born to Lalchand Shimpi, an Indian-born computer science professor at St Augustine's University,[6] and Razieh Shimpi, an Iranian-born teacher in Raleigh, NC. When Shimpi was in third grade, his father enrolled him in a computer course. He built his first PC in sixth grade and soon began building PCs for others. He is a graduate of William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts and North Carolina State University with a degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis on microprocessor architecture and design.[7]Шаблон:Primary source inline
Career
He started AnandTech in 1997 at the age of 15.[8][6] He called it Anand's Hardware Tech Page. He first started reviewing motherboards; later he would go on to review CPUs, hard drives, RAM, and other computer components. His tech reviews were in-depth and thorough, making it the preferred site for hardware engineers and enthusiasts, receiving praise from spokespersons from AMD and Intel.[6][9] He served as its editor-in-chief from 1997 to 2014. AnandTech grew from a small GeoCities website in 1997 to a 50 million page view per month publication Шаблон:As of. AnandTech started as a site that mainly reviewed motherboards and soon added CPUs, video cards, cases, notebooks, Macs, smartphones, tablets and other hardwares.[10]Шаблон:Primary source inline He reportedly was able to get his hands on an AMD K6-III before any other reviewers.[6]
Anand has been featured in USA Today, 20/20, 48 Hours, G4 and on Fortune Magazine. He has been one of the celebrity speakers at Computex 2003 in Taiwan.[11]
In 2013 he was named as an expert in the BBC's coverage of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.[12]
On August 30, 2014, he announced his decision to retire from the technology publishing industry to work at Apple's hardware technologies division,[13][8][14] and named longtime AnandTech editor Ryan Smith as his successor.[10]
On February 15, 2020, Bloomberg reported that Anand sent confidential documents to Gerard Williams III after the latter had left Apple to form NUVIA.[15]
Publications
Anand is also the author of the book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (Шаблон:ISBN) [16]and has a regular column in Computer Power user (CPU) Magazine called Anand's Corner.[11]
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External References
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