Hsinchu, Taiwan,


AUO Corporation ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its preliminary consolidated October 2009 revenue of NT$39,603 million, down by 3.4% from the previous month but up 45.3% from the same period last year.

 

Since some IT panels applications are in seasonal slowdown, the large-sized panel(a) shipments for October 2009, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, were close to 8.96 million units, a decrease of 4.5% from September 2009. As to small- and -medium-sized panels, the shipments grow to 25.93 million units, up 9.9% compared to last 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

October 2009

39,603

38,075

September 2009

40,978

39,446
M-o-M Growth

 (3.4%)

(3.5%)
October 2008

27,261

27,211
Y-o-Y Growth

45.3%

39.9%
Jan to Oct. 2009

284,073

278,190
Jan to Oct. 2008

391,439

389,650
Y-o-Y Growth

(27.4%)

(28.6%)

 

 

(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., AU Optronics (Suzhou) Corp., AU Optronics (Shanghai) Corp., AU Optronics Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp., AU Optronics (Xiamen) Corp., Darwin Precisions (L) Corp., Darwin Precisions (Suzhou) Corp., Darwin Precisions (Xiamen) Corp., Darwin Precision Corp., BriView Electronics(L) Corp., BriView Electronics Corp., BVCH Optronics (Sichuan) Corp., BriView Technology Corp., AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o., M. Setek Co., Ltd. and its affiliates, Toppan CFI (Taiwan) Co, Ltd., Lextar Electronics Corp., and AUO Energy Taiwan Corp.

Yawen Hsiao
Corporate Communications Division
AUO Corporation

 

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