Intel quietly increased the recommended selling price of its recently launched Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus "Arrow Lake-S" desktop processors from their launch prices of $299.99 and $199.99, respectively. The 270K Plus now sees a significant 16% price increase, and comes with an MSRP of $349.99. Meanwhile, the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, which received much praise in the media for its disruptive price, gets a 15% price increase, with an MSRP of $229.99. The new prices are reflected in Intel's online product information pages for the 270K Plus and 250K Plus.

Both chips are Socket LGA1851 processors meant for Intel 800-series chipset motherboards. The 270K Plus offers an 8P+16E core configuration that maxes out the "Arrow Lake-S" silicon, with its entire 36 MB L3 cache, and a maximum P-core boost frequency of 5.50 GHz; meanwhile the 250K Plus comes with the highest core count among any Intel "5" segment processor, with 6P+12E, and 30 MB of L3 cache. Both chips also support Intel's new Binary Optimization technology.