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

 

(UnitNT$ 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.