We've already heard that Nvidia could be helping out with the graphical behind the next DS, and today we hear talk that AMD could be lined up to power the next iteration of the console.

According to Fuzilla, AMD and ATI might have been enlisted to provide the GPU for the secret system.

The current GPU hardware in the is also made by this pair of firms, so if they have been enlisted once again this wouldn't exactly be a surprise.

A release in 2012 is rumoured to be on the cards, while a 2010 release is said to have been pushed back owing to the global economic crisis.

This could all be nonsense, of course. We'll let you know, either way.

By Luke Guttridge