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Deutsche Bank appointed MARCUS CHROMIK as the new CRO.It is reported that the price of iPhone 18 Pro's further use of TSMC's 2nm chip will increase by 70%. It is reported that in 2026, the A20 Pro processor of iPhone 18 Pro will be produced by TSMC's 2 nm process for the first time, and the chip price will rise from the current 50 US dollars to 85 US dollars, with an increase of 70%. With the high cost, the price of iPhone 18 Pro may increase. (Taiwan Province Business Times)Enterprise IT Expenditure Survey: Google Cloud is expected to be the first choice for 50% of the respondents. Tae Kim, a science and technology columnist, wrote that according to a recent survey, Google Cloud has risen rapidly in the enterprise AI expenditure competition and may become the winner. According to the 2025 CIO survey released by Piper Sandler, 81 CIOs were asked about their budget priorities in different suppliers and technical fields. According to the survey, 87% of CIOs surveyed expect to increase the IT budget in 2025, which is the highest proportion of the survey since 2020. In this survey, the status of Google Cloud has risen significantly, surpassing Microsoft and OpenAI to become the "most strategic" AI supplier, with a support rate of 27%, a significant increase from 15% six months ago. Relatively speaking, Microsoft's support rate dropped from 33% to 24%. When asked which cloud company they plan to use to test or implement AI projects next year, 50% of the respondents chose Google Cloud, making it the top AI infrastructure provider. In addition, Harsh Kumar, a Piper semiconductor analyst, pointed out that these results are also beneficial to Invista, because all cloud companies are the main buyers of AI chips in NVIDIA. Kumar estimates that the entire AI chip market will have more than $500 billion in business opportunities by 2028.

Zhongzhiwei Technology completed tens of millions of yuan financing. On December 12th, Nanjing Zhongzhiwei Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Zhongzhiwei Technology) completed tens of millions of yuan B1 financing, which was jointly invested by Guangzhou Baiyun Financial Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Hongfeng Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. This round of financing funds will be used for iterative application of AI+ network security products, breakthrough in key industry landing scenarios and market channel construction. Zhongzhiwei Technology is a solution provider of "city-level data+digital security operation", and has launched a series of new platform-based network security products around AISecOps (artificial intelligence security operation).ByteDance and Peking University set up the Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software. On the evening of December 12th, the signing ceremony of Peking University-ByteDance Joint Lab of Bean Bag Large Model System Software and the academic seminar of "Intelligent Software Technology and Ecology for Large Model" were held in Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University. Experts attending the meeting agreed that it is of great significance to promote the deep integration of Industry-University-Research to promote the breakthrough of core technologies of artificial intelligence. The establishment of this joint laboratory is an important milestone in collaborative innovation between schools and enterprises, and will jointly promote the technological innovation and application development of large-scale model system software based on the advantages of both parties. (Sina Technology)Polls show that the support rate of Japanese Prime Minister Shi Pomao's cabinet has dropped to 26.8%. According to a report by the Japan News Agency on the 12th local time, the poll conducted by the agency in December showed that the support rate of Shi Pomao's cabinet was 26.8%, down 1.9 percentage points from last month. (CCTV News)

ECB: Most indicators show that the inflation rate will stabilize at 2%.The turnover of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, 52.2 billion yuan more than the previous day. Up to now, the turnover of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, 52.2 billion yuan more than the previous day. Among them, the turnover of Shanghai Stock Exchange was 584.4 billion yuan, that of Shenzhen Stock Exchange was 899.8 billion yuan, and that of Beizheng 50 was 15.8 billion yuan.Bank of America Securities lowered the Adobe target price from $640.00 to $605.00.