Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced preliminary consolidated February 2007 monthly revenues of NT$22,690 million and unconsolidated revenues totaled NT$22,674 million, both decreasing 20.3% from January 2007. On a year-over-year comparison, consolidated and unconsolidated revenues of February 2007 rose by 5.1% and 5.0% respectively.

 

Due to Chinese New Year and less working days in February, shipments of large-sized panels(a) used in desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and general display applications, amounted to 4.54 million, a 17.4% decrease from January 2007. Shipments of small- and medium-sized panels totaled 6.02 million, decreasing 12.9% sequentially.

 

(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 2007

22,690

22,674

January 2007

28,458

28,455

M-o-M Growth

(20.3%)

(20.3%)

February 2006

21,597

21,594

Y-o-Y Growth

5.1%

5.0%

Jan to Feb 2007

51,148

51,128

Jan to Feb 2006

43,797

43,794

Y-o-Y Growth

16.8%

16.7%

 

 

(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 and Tech - Well (Shanghai) Display Co.