In case you missed it over the long weekend, Anand Shimpi, founder and editor-in-chief of hardware site AnandTech, retired from his position on Saturday evening. His farewell post doesn't mention what his next project will be, but Re/code later reported that he had been hired by Apple, a fact that Apple confirmed without divulging more specifics.

Shimpi (along with former mobile editor Brian Klug, who has also reportedly left for Apple and hasn't been active on AnandTech since January of this year) has been the primary source of information about Apple's mobile SoC architectures for the last couple of years now. Much of what we know about the Apple A6 architecture ("Swift," not to be confused with the programming language of the same name) and the Apple A7 ("Cyclone") comes from AnandTech reporting. What Shimpi and Klug will be doing for Apple isn't clear, but it's a fair bet that it's processor-related.

Shimpi has been running AnandTech for over 17 years, but the site will continue in his absence under new Editor-in-Chief Ryan Smith—the site remains focused on in-depth architectural overviews, benchmarks, and reviews, and Smith seems intent on keeping it that way. Still, as someone who has read AnandTech for many years and even worked there for a while, Anand's presence on the site that bears his name will be missed.