Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated and unconsolidated June 2009 revenue of NT$30,396 million and NT$29,952 million, up 9.6% and 9.2% respectively from May 2009. In terms of Y-o-Y comparison, they were down by 17.3% and 17.7% respectively.

 

In the second quarter of 2009, AUO’s unaudited consolidated and unconsolidated revenues totaled NT$82,483 million and NT$81,446 million. It represented a significant 62.6% and 61.4% Q-o-Q increase, but a 33.2% and 33.4% decline from the year-ago quarter.

 

Constrained by limited glass supply, large-sized panel(a) shipments for June 2009, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, were close to 7.78 million units, which was equivalent to May. As to small- and -medium-sized panels, the shipments reached over 19.12 million units, slightly down 0.9% sequentially.

 

In the second quarter of 2009, large-sized panel shipments were close to 22.41 million units, a 70.4% Q-o-Q and a 2.6 %Y-o-Y increase. Shipments of small- and -medium-sized panels in the same quarter totaled 60.82 million units, up 41.7% from last quarter, also a 45.2% Y-o-Y increase.

 

(a) Large size refers to panels that are 10 inches and above in diagonal measurement while small and medium size refers to those below 10 inches.

 

 

Sales Report：

 

(Unit：NT$ million)

Net Sales(1)(2)

Consolidated(3)

Unconsolidated

June 2009

30,396

29,952

May 2009

27,728

27,421
M-o-M Growth

9.6%

9.2%
June 2008

36,736

36,388
Y-o-Y Growth

(17.3%)

(17.7%)
Jan to June 2009

133,224

131,915
Jan to June 2008

260,106

258,612
Y-o-Y Growth

(48.8%)

(49.0%)

 

 

(1)：All figures are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in Taiwan.
(2)：Monthly figures are unaudited, prepared by AU Optronics Corp.
(3)：Consolidated numbers include AU Optronics Corp., AU Optronics (L) Corporation, AU Optronics (Suzhou) Corporation, AU Optronics (Shanghai) Corporation, Tech - Well (Shanghai) Display Co., AU Optronics (Xiamen) Corp., Darwin Precisions (L) Corp., Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o., Lextar Electronics Corp., Darwin Precision Corp., BriView Technology Corp., BriView Electronics Corp. and AUO Energy Taiwan Corp.