Amazon Silk is a Revolutionary Cloud-Based Browser for the Kindle Fire [Video]

Alongside this morning's announcement of one of the Amazon tablets we've been waiting for – the Amazon Kindle Fire – the eCommerce giant has announced a new browser technology and the first implementation will be on the Kindle Fire itself. They're calling it Amazon Split and it's essentially a two-part browser – Amazon's EC2 super computer cluster loads and processes intense webpage images and code on Amazon servers, while the browser on the tablet is left to do much smaller tasks. Gizmodo provides us with this image from the event illustrating the load share between the two:.



Android Phone, Amazon Silk is a Revolutionary Cloud-Based Browser for the Kindle Fire [Video]