Coretronic's BLU (backlight unit) shipments rose 7% on month to 7.4 million units in May 2010, netting sales of NT$5.571 billion (US$171.838 million), up 1% from April and 40% from a year earlier.
According to the company, May BLU shipments mainly consisted of 3.12 million units used in LCD monitors, 3.033 million units for notebooks and 1.14 million units for LCD TVs, and of which LED products accounted for 24%, 82% and 19%, respectively.
Coretronic's total May revenues amounted to NT$8.633 billion, up 3% on month and 43% on year. The company expects projector sales to fall in June due to seasonal patterns, but BLUs should see a modest increase.
In May, Coretronic shipped 128,000 projectors for NT$1.859 billion in sales, down 4% and 10% on month, respectively. Projector shipments from January through May jumped 98% from a year ago to 587,000 units.
Fellow BLU maker Radiant Opto Electronics shipped 8.38 million units in the same period, accounting for 97% of its total revenues.
The company's notebook BLU (including LCM) shipments in May rose 4.7% on month to 4.45 million units, of which 2.82 million units were for large-size LED notebooks and 1.62 million units for netbooks. Notebook BLU shipments contributed 46% of the company's overall revenues in May.
ASPs for LED notebooks and netbooks were NT$460 and NT$321, respectively.
Radiant shipped 3.42 million and 430,000 units to the LCD monitor and LCD TV segments in May, respectively, down 2.6% and 15% on month. The two segments represented 36% and 15% of May revenues.
Radiant credited the positive results to growing LCM orders. The company shipped 600,000 units in April, a million units in May and significant growth is expected in June due to strong orders for Samsung notebooks. Second-quarter LCM shipments should top three million units, according to the company.
Article translated by Willie Teng
