Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated and unconsolidated January 2009 revenue of NT$13,245 million and NT$13,199 million, both down by 10.1% from December 2008 and down by 71.9% from January 2008.

 

Due to fewer working days caused by Lunar New Year, large-sized panel(a) shipments for January 2009, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications totaled 3.23 million units, a 23.5% M-o-M drop. As to small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments reached over 9.63 million units, a slight 2.2% sequential decrease.

 

(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 2009

13,245

13,199

December 2008

14,735

14,684
M-o-M Growth

(10.1%)

(10.1%)
January 2008

47,097

47,052
Y-o-Y Growth

(71.9%)

(71.9%)

 

 

(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) 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. and AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o.