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:
As you can see above the server will do a majority of the work, meaning your phone won’t need a fast processor and tons of RAM to deliver a good browsing experience. It’s essentially Opera Mini, but better.
Silk will preload certain pages that you visit often, meaning you’ll be able to load Phandroid.com’s new content in only a fraction of the time it currently takes you on other browsers!
Amazon can also store your cache on the EC2 servers, meaning you have virtually unlimited cache. This is how cloud-based browsing should be done and we’re very excited to see Amazon put everything into play on the Fire.
We’re hoping the Silk browser will eventually make its way to the Android market for all users to enjoy, but we won’t hold our breath. We’ll be on the lookout for hands-on video from various outlets in the coming hours. Be sure to watch a video overview of the Silk browser below!