There have been a couple of rumors that the 790 was in the works, in addition to the massive amount of hope for a dual GK110 from the community, myself included. I can't lie, it would beat my 690s into a pulp, but I think it would be an engineering feat to get them sandwiched together.
Rumors coming out of Fudzilla state that the 790 is in the works (GK110s) and possible a proper Tesla unit, Titan Ultra, with higher clock rates and all SMXs working.
Fudzilla: http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/32360-nvidia-reportedly-working-on-two-new-cards
VideoCardz believe there is a Titan Ultra in the works, but their belief is that it is a 790 rather than two individual cards being worked on.
VideoCardz: http://videocardz.com/45403/nvidia-to-launch-more-cards-this-year-maxwell-in-q1-2014
Not to mention nVidia's official plans include Maxwell around the end of Q1, 2014. Rumors also include Radeon HDs have been pushed closer to production (to as soon as November?!).
What both rumors don't tell you however, it doesn't seem super likely to be running 20nm if true, and if not true.... why release more of the same cards? We do know that TSMC still isn't mass producing the smaller fabrication, and by calculations (based off of nVidias GFLOPs vs. Watt Roadmap Slide), it isn't possible to release their intended Maxwell without a die shrink.
With all this focus on the new console generation as well, AMD has been having to spend a lot of its fabrication queues on chips for the Xbox One, PS4, Wii, Wii U, and Xbox 360.
These rumors seem at best wishful think for now, only these two giants really know what is going on.
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