AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated January 2012 revenue of NT$21,706 million, down by 21.7% from the previous month and 28.1% from the same period last year.

 

Due to the Chinese New Year holidays and fewer workdays in January 2012, large-sized panel (a) shipments, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, decreased by 15% month-over-month to nearly 7.31 million units. As for small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments were around 10.33 million units, down by 33% month-over-month.

 

(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

January 2012

21,706

20,653

December 2011

27,716

26,234
M-o-M Growth

(21.7%)

(21.3%)
January 2011

30,188

28,341
Y-o-Y Growth

(28.1%)

(27.1%)

 

 

(1)：All figures are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in Taiwan.
(2)：Monthly figures are unaudited, prepared by AUO Corporation.
(3)：Consolidated numbers include AUO Corporation., AU Optronics (L) Corp. and its affiliates, , BriView Electronics Corp. and its affiliates, Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., Darshin Microelectronics Inc., and AUO Crystal Corp. and its affiliates.