Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated August 2010 revenue of NT$43,545 million, up by 12% month-over-month and 15.5% year-over-year.

 

Large-sized panel(a) shipments for August 2010, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, exceeded 9.91 million units, up by 7.1% from the previous month. As for small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments amounted to nearly 18.15 million units, up by 4.9% 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

August 2010

43,545

41,656

July 2010

38,872

37,301

M-o-M Growth

12.0%

11.7%

August 2009

37,713

36,911

Y-o-Y Growth

15.5%

12.9%

Jan. to Aug. 2010

322,567

307,123

Jan. to Aug. 2009

203,492

200,669

Y-o-Y Growth

 58.5%

53.0%

 

 

(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, Darwin Precision Corp. and its affiliates, BriView Electronics Corp., Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., and AUO Energy Taiwan Corp. Revenue of Lextar Electronics Corp. and its affiliates is no longer included in the consolidated numbers starting from this July.