Anand Lal Shimpi (born June 26, 1982)[1] is a former tech journalist and American businessman who is the founder of the technology website AnandTech, a hardware news/review site.
[5] Anand was born to Lalchand Shimpi, an Indian-born computer science professor at St Augustine's University,[4] and Razieh, an Iranian-born teacher in Raleigh, NC.
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.
His tech reviews were in-depth and thorough, making it the preferred site for hardware engineers and enthusiasts, receiving praise from spokespersons at AMD and Intel.
[13] On February 15, 2020, Bloomberg reported that Anand sent confidential documents to Gerard Williams III after the latter had left Apple to form NUVIA.