AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated January 2012 revenue of NT$21,706 million, down by 21.7% from the previous month and 28.1% from the same period last year.

 

Due to the Chinese New Year holidays and fewer workdays in January 2012, large-sized panel (a) shipments, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, decreased by 15% month-over-month to nearly 7.31 million units. As for small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments were around 10.33 million units, down by 33% 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 2012

21,706

20,653

December 2011

27,716

26,234

M-o-M Growth

(21.7%)

(21.3%)

January 2011

30,188

28,341

Y-o-Y Growth

(28.1%)

(27.1%)

 

 

(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, , BriView Electronics Corp. and its affiliates, Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., Darshin Microelectronics Inc., and AUO Crystal Corp. and its affiliates.