The new browser alongside the hardware

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the new browser alongside the hardware, however most onlookers were probably too excited about the feature presentation to pay much mind to Silk. The company is calling it a "split browser," since it divvies up the computing workload between the local processor and Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, service. Bezos added, "When you use Silk -- without thinking about it or doing anything explicit -- you're calling on the raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2 to accelerate your Web browsing."

Silk won't rely absolutely on EC2 and can process everything locally when needed, so when Amazon runs into the occasional outage, Silk won't be left high and dry. It's even built upon the same WebKit browser engine that Apple and Google use for Safari and Chrome.

The end result is that pages will load much faster

The end result is that pages will load much faster and battery life will be extended since the local CPU can take it easy. Spontaneously, Silk is unlikely to make or break the Kindle Fire for anyone, nevertheless it is one of the ways that the tablet has differentiated itself from its Android brethren and puts Apple and Google pursuant to this agreement the gun to consider revamping their mobile-browser research.