AUO is expected in March tablet shipments will surge

"Apple Daily" quoted Thursday by the Au Optronics Co Ltd (AU Optronics Corp., 2409.TW) chairman Li Yao (K.Y. Lee) said, is expected to increase significantly in March tablet shipments. Snow disaster in mainland China leads to delayed shipment of raw materials since January.

Quoted Peng Shuanglang, senior vice president of AU Optronics (Paul SL Peng) said, AUO plans to increase the use of environmentally friendly LED backlight in the notebook computer plate module.

Reported AUO tablet notebook computer shipments per month at about 2 million 500 thousand -260 million tablets, tablet shipments using LED backlight accounted for about 5-6%.

Source: Wall Street Journal