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LoRdTAW writes:

It has been over six years since BeagleBoard.org released the original Beagleboard, one of the first open source ARM SBC's for hobbyist use. Now the team has released the details of the upcoming Beagleboard-X15 based on the TI dual-core Sitara AM5728 SoC (system on Chip). It features a number of processor subsystems, modern, high-speed serial I/O ports as well as GPIO ports.

A partial list of SoC features include:
Dual ARM Cortex A15 cores running at 1.5GHz featuring: 128bit NEON SIMD, Hardware Virtualization, Jazelle RCT and LPAE allowing up to 1TB of RAM.
Dual C66x DSP cores
Dual IPU's (Image Processor Units) each containing dual Cortex M4 cores (only one IPU is user programmable, one dedicated to video decode)
1080P 60FPS video decoder (using IPU)
Dual core PowerVR SGX544-MP2 GPU
Dual PRU-ICSS coprocessors (Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication Subsystem)
Dual Gigabit ethernet ports via internal switch from single GbE MAC.

The board features:
2GB DDR3 RAM on board
eSATA port @ 3.0Gbps
HDMI, LCD and a Video in ports
Dual PCIe 2.0 5Gbps lanes supporting two x1 or one x2 ports, routed to expansion headers
Audio in and out ports via 3.5mm jacks and HDMI audio out.
GPIO headers
More to come ...

The board is scheduled to be released in late February, 2015. Unfortunately, the price has not yet been announced. The official wiki page is located here: http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15 It looks to be quite a powerful board with a lot of connectivity and processing power.

Also revealed in the LinuxGizmos.com article:

Meanwhile, changes may also be in store for the BeagleBone Black. In response to a comment on his Google+ post, Pantelic confirmed rumors that TI was interested in offering the BeagleBoard community a more expensive processor than the low cost, low-margin Sitara AM3359 Cortex-A8 SoC used on the BB Black. BeagleBoard.org’s manufacturing partners Farnell and Embest will “take over producing the BBB, but since TI is not happy to sell to them a low cost processor, it will run with a certain Broadcom CPU instead,” wrote Pantelic. “Remember, you heard it here first.”