Chrome implements web GPU enhancements and native design token support

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Chrome's web GPU path now offers improved memory management and shader caching, reducing jank on complex web apps and games. The browser also exposes more granular profiling tools in DevTools to measure GPU-bound work and tile lifecycles, helping engineers find hot spots more easily.

On the design front, Chrome introduced a native design token API that web apps can use to register semantic tokens for color, spacing, and typography. The API ensures token inheritance between shadow DOM boundaries and provides a fallback mechanism for older browsers.

Design teams can now ship token-based theming flows that rely less on custom JS bridges, lowering implementation cost for multi-brand and white-label experiences. The combination of GPU improvements and token support is aimed at making rich, performant interfaces more maintainable.