Hsinchu, Taiwan,

 

AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated February 2010 revenue of NT$32,666 million, down by 14.5% from January and up by an impressive 112.4% year-over-year.

 

Due to the Chinese New Year holidays and fewer workdays in February, large-sized panel (a) shipments for February 2010, with applications as desktop monitors, notebook PCs, and LCD TVs, totaled around 8.01 million units, a 15.3% drop month-over-month. As for small- and medium-sized panels, the shipments amounted to around 16.09 million units, down by approximately 17.6% from the previous 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

February 2010

32,666

31,182

January 2010

38,225

36,260
M-o-M Growth

(14.5%)

(14.0%)
February 2009

15,381

15,323
Y-o-Y Growth

112.4%

103.5%
Jan to Feb 2010

70,891

67,441
Jan to Feb 2009

28,626

28,522
Y-o-Y Growth

147.6%

136.5%

 

 

(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) Corp., AU Optronics (Suzhou) Corp., AU Optronics (Shanghai) Corp., AU Optronics Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp., AU Optronics (Xiamen) Corp., Darwin Precisions (L) Corp., Darwin Precisions (Suzhou) Corp., Darwin Precisions (Xiamen) Corp., Darwin Precision Corp., BriView Electronics(L) Corp., BriView Electronics Corp., BVCH Optronics (Sichuan) Corp., BriView Technology Corp., AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o., M. Setek Co., Ltd. and its affiliates, Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., Lextar Electronics Corp., and AUO Energy Taiwan Corp.

Yawen Hsiao
Corporate Communications Division
AU Optronics Corp.

 

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