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.