AU Optronics Reports March 2011 Consolidated Revenue

AU Optronics AUO today announced its preliminary consolidated March 2011 revenue of NT$35,947 million, up by 32.7% month-over-month and down by 11.6% year-over-year. Owing to the lower-than-expected TV panel prices, AUO's unaudited consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2011 totaled NT$93,230 million, down by 9.1% quarter-over-quarter and 16.4% year-over-year. For March 2011, Large-sized panel (a) shipments, with applications on desktop monitor, notebook PC, LCD TV and other applications, surpassed 10.71 million units, an increase of 30.1% from the previous month. As for small-and-medium-sized panels, the shipments were around 16.77 million units, up by 37.2% month-over-month.