Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated and unconsolidated July 2009 revenue of NT$32,551 million and NT$31,843 million, up 7.1% and 6.3% respectively from June 2009. In terms of Y-o-Y comparison, they were slightly down by 0.3% and 1.9% respectively.

 

Large-sized panel (a) shipments for July 2009, with applications on desktop monitors, notebook PCs, LCD TVs and other applications, exceeded 8.26 million units, up 6.2% from previous month. As for small- and medium-sized panels, the shipments topped 21.51 million units, up 12.5% sequentially.

 

(a) Large-sized refers to panels that are 10 inches and above in diagonal measurement while small-and-medium-sized refers to those below 10 inches.

 

 

Sales Report:

 

(Unit:NT$ million)

Net Sales(1)(2)

Consolidated(3)

Unconsolidated

July 2009

32,551

31,843

June 2009

30,399

29,952

M-o-M Growth

 7.1%

6.3%

July 2008

32,654

32,460

Y-o-Y Growth

(0.3%)

(1.9%)

Jan to July 2009

165,778

163,758

Jan to July 2008

292,760

291,072

Y-o-Y Growth

(43.4%)

(43.7%)

 

 

(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) 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., AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o., Lextar Electronics Corp., Darwin Precision Corp., BriView Technology Corp., BriView Electronics Corp. and AUO Energy Taiwan Corp.