The first and last story was a review of an AMD processor and when the magazine started the term GPU was not a thing.

Writing his magazine’s obit, Ryan Smith  wrote that time computing had gone from desktop computers and laptops that today we’d charitably classify as portable desktops to pocket computers where even the cheapest budget device puts the fastest PC of 1997 to shame.

“AnandTech was hardly the first hardware enthusiast website, nor will we be the last. But we were fortunate to thrive in the past couple of decades, when so many of our peers did not, thanks to a combination of hard work, strategic investments in people and products, even more hard work, and the support of our many friends, colleagues, and readers,” Smith wrote.

He pointed out that the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again and while Toms’ Hardware would continue, his magazine will be gone.

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