https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-core-i7-9700k-rumored-to-abandon-hyper-threading

Intel’s mysterious 9th-generation Coffee Lake Refresh processors are about to get even more perplexing, as a leak suggests the Intel Core i7-9700K will drop hyper-threading.

The Intel Core i7-9700K was just listed by SiSoftware as an 8-core and 8-thread processor, making it the very first Core i7 processor without hyper-threading enabled. Online speculation suggests Intel is abandoning its signature feature in favor of reaching higher clock speeds. These specs also claim that the Intel Core i7-9700K will run at a 3.6GHz stock clock.