Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated January 2011 revenue of NT$30,188 million, down by 1.4% from the previous month and 21% from the same period last year.

 

For January 2011, large-sized panel (a) shipments, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, increased by 3.3% month-over-month to nearly 9.46 million units. As for small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments were around 14.5 million units, down by 15% 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 2011

30,188

28,341

December 2010

30,604

28,156

M-o-M Growth

(1.4%)

0.7%

January 2010

38,225

36,260

Y-o-Y Growth

(21%)

(21.8%)

 

 

(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 Crystal Corp. and its affiliates.