(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Intel has been busy preparing and launching the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus this week, leaving speculation as to where the Ultra 9 counterpart might be — after all, we saw leaked benchmarks of the flagship part a month ago. Intel confirmed to PCGamesHardware that it has scrapped the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus and won't be releasing the chip. Furthermore, Intel also stated it is scrapping a potential Special Edition Ultra 9 SKU for the Arrow Lake generation as well. Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU Intel neglected to share its reasons for cancelling the 290K Plus, but it is easy to guess why. Specs-wise, the chip was rumored to be a very minor boost over the 270K Plus, featuring the same core count and a 200-300MHz clock speed improvement over the 270K Plus, assuming the 290K Plus' rumored clock speeds were true.…