While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon's launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off its new browser for the tablet, which it calls Silk.

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Instead of a device-siloed software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-architecture. All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform.

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The Silk browser maintains a single persistent connection to Amazon's cloud (using Google's fast SPDY protocol), through which requests are sent and content is received.

One of the key features in Amazon's new tablet is a Web browser called Silk. Amazon says the exclusive software can render pages faster than competitors, and save battery life in the process.

Jenkins says Silk can keep track of how the processing worked for, say, the last 100,000 users - that in all cases, the same logo header was downloaded and that the page did not change this routine.