Equity Method Investments - 2 (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Dec. 01, 2016	Dec. 03, 2015
Inotera \| Inventories \| DRAM
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Purchases of DRAM products from Inotera	$ 504	$ 379
Tera Probe
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Related party purchases from Tera Probe	$ 16	$ 21

The amount purchased during the period under an unrecorded unconditional purchase obligation (for example, under the take-or-pay or throughput contract).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 440
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (d)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73718637&loc=d3e25336-109308

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Balance Type:	debit
Period Type:	duration