Source for industry news?

[NotEntirelyConfused]

In the wake of Anandtech's closure I am finding that I've lost a valuable source of industry news.

What is the smallest set of sites I can check daily (or RSS) to stay current? AT wasn't great but they did cover a lot, and they were notably less tunnel-visioned that most "PC enthusiast" sites, which tend to be heavily slanted towards gamers, and have very little interest in the rest of the industry. Sure, I am interested in GPU and CPU news, but I *also* want to know what storage vendors are doing for corporate customers, what the latest in DC networking is, etc.

AT also seemed to hold their biases mostly in check, despite frequent complaints. That's a useful and somewhat uncommon quality. :-(

 

[dada_dave]

I mostly go to Tom’s Hardware now - a couple of the Anandtech writers already work for them and were a sister site of sorts. They’re okay but I don’t know if they cover the breadth you’re after. Another website might be servethehome? They cover more of the professional side. Then maybe techpowerup and notebookcheck? Again more consumer centric content.

 

[mr_roboto]

I mostly go to Tom’s Hardware now - a couple of the Anandtech writers already work for them and were a sister site of sorts.

The article announcing the end of Anandtech mentioned that the same company had bought both Tom's and AT. Seems like the money guys decided they only wanted to pay for running one active website, and decided to keep Tom's.

Which is sad because Tom's was awful. Maybe the infusion of AT people will help with that, but if the editorial direction of the combined site is still what Tom's has been for years and years, I don't have much hope.

 

[NotEntirelyConfused]

Yes, they've both been owned by Future (I think it's called) for years. And some of the lesser writers have been writing for both.

 

[dada_dave]

The article announcing the end of Anandtech mentioned that the same company had bought both Tom's and AT. Seems like the money guys decided they only wanted to pay for running one active website, and decided to keep Tom's.

Which is sad because Tom's was awful. Maybe the infusion of AT people will help with that, but if the editorial direction of the combined site is still what Tom's has been for years and years, I don't have much hope.

I've only been paying recent attention to them, before AT's ultimate demise, but in the last year really. I've seen a few issues here and there (problems with hyperbole in writing up press releases or leaks and the website crashes all the time on mobile for me, desktop website is okay), but overall they seem okay now? At least not terribly different from Anandtech in the last year in most aspects, maybe even better in some ways. But ... I have to admit, that's partially because some of Anandtech's content was getting kinda iffy towards the end. Some of Gavin Bonshor's final articles from Computex I think were pretty badly written to the point where many, many people were commenting on it below the articles. To be fair, he had to write a huge amount in a very short period of time, but having read his earlier, far better works it almost dare I say felt like an AI bot summary of press releases in certain sections, and write ups from others, including Tom's, were better. And altogether there was an increasing amount of "repeat company press release" articles populating AT - truthfully there just were not enough writers and reviewers to actually cover stories and reviews and so forth - it's why Ian said he left when realized no one was going to be hired to replace Andrei. Having said that, I think I still prefer AT's and NotebookCheck's reviews to Tom's which feel disorganized and cluttered to me and too gamer centric, of course the former sadly no longer being done going forwards. NotebookCheck will probably be my primary review source from now on.

Yes, they've both been owned by Future (I think it's called) for years. And some of the lesser writers have been writing for both.

Aye, not clear how much that played a role in AT's demise (not the writers working for both, I mean the owners). Probably more than Anandtech's final article let on. They just weren't willing to fund AT to the level it needed to hire enough people and do the kind of work they strived to do. Sad.