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102 Microsoft forced slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, but expects to nearly double storage performance and improve battery life with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — new feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet

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Tom's Hardware · 12/24/2025 12:27 EDT

Microsoft forced slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, but expects to nearly double storage performance and improve battery life with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — new feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet

The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.

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