Amazon Silk is the First Step in Giving Mobiles Unlimited Computing Power

“The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies, associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of your smart phone that lives in “the cloud” and let it do all the computational heavy lifting that your phone is too wimpy to handle.

Cloning your mobile device in the cloud opens up wild possibilities that go well beyond simply speeding up your access to the web.

1. CloneCloud has the capability to calculate whether it’s faster and more power-efficient to run a process on a phone or to run it in the cloud and transmit the results to the phone.”

Amazon Silk is the First Step in Giving Mobiles Unlimited Computing Power – Technology Review