So Silk does indeed split the client into two parts: renderer and proxy:
http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/
The proxy is pretty smart: cacheing all the very common fragments of a page such as jQuerry and favicons/images. It also optimizes images for various devices: tablets, phones/pods, desktops and so on.
Apparently Opera has some of this tech, but I'm betting that Google is going to dig into this pretty quickly. They already do some of this, but the fragments are a big plus as are the image (and I presume audio/video/pdfs and so on) optimizations.
Now the question is: is this solely for small devices? It certainly is going to change the game for tablets and phones. This makes me think Amazon may start branding phones, much like Best Buy has started doing.
Interesting times.
-- Owen
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