Re/Code reported on Sunday that Anand Lal Shimpi, the editor and publisher of the well-regarded technology site, AnandTech, will soon be working for Apple. While an Apple representative would confirm Shimpi would be working for the company, the rep wouldn’t provide any other details.
Last night, via a post on the site he founded in 1997, Shimpi said he was “officially retiring from the tech publishing world,” but didn’t say what he was doing next. “I won’t stay idle forever. There are a bunch of challenges out there :)”, he wrote.
AnandTech focused most of its coverage on the hardware powering popular devices and computers. Shimpi’s said: “AnandTech started as a site that primarily reviewed motherboards, then we added CPUs, video cards, cases, notebooks, Macs, smartphones, tablets and anything else that mattered.”
AnandTech will continue publishing, and will be run by new editor in chief Ryan Smith.
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