Percent of Goodwill and Intangible Assets

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Total loss recognized during the period from the impairment of goodwill plus the loss recognized in the period resulting from the impairment of the carrying amount of intangible assets, other than goodwill.

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Amount of impairment loss resulting from write-down of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance and having a projected indefinite period of benefit to fair value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 350
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26713463&loc=d3e16373-109275

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Impairment of Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Details)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Impairment of Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Details)	Jan. 02, 2016 USD ($)	Jan. 02, 2016 USD ($) segment	Jan. 03, 2015 USD ($)	Dec. 28, 2013 USD ($)
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Number of Operating Segments \| segment		2
Number of industry segments \| segment		1
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets		$ 21,655,000	$ 0	$ 0
Impairment	$ 9,000,000	8,995,000
SiliconBlue Technologies Ltd. and Silicon Image, Inc
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets		12,700,000
SiliconBlue Technologies Ltd. and Silicon Image, Inc \| Developed technology
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Impairment		3,856,000
SiliconBlue Technologies Ltd. and Silicon Image, Inc \| Customer relationships
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Impairment		5,139,000
Lattice
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets		0
Qterics
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets		$ 12,700,000
Goodwill and Intangible Asset Impairment, Percent		92.00%