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Commitments And Contingencies (Additional Information) (Details) (USD $)			3 Months Ended							3 Months Ended		45 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Oct. 26, 2013	Jul. 27, 2013	Oct. 26, 2013 Minimum [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Maximum [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Acquisition [Member]	Oct. 27, 2012 Acquisition [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Acquisition [Member] Maximum [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Investments In Privately Held Companies	Jul. 27, 2013 Investments In Privately Held Companies	Oct. 26, 2013 VCE [Member]	Oct. 27, 2012 VCE [Member]	Apr. 27, 2013 VCE [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Insieme Networks Inc [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Insieme Networks Inc [Member] November 2012 Amendment [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 Insieme Networks Inc [Member] Including $257M expensed year-to-date [Member] Maximum [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 XpertUniverse [Member] Fraud by concealment claims [Member]	Oct. 26, 2013 XpertUniverse [Member] Maximum [Member] Patents infringement [Member]
Site Contingency [Line Items]
Inventory purchase commitments	$ 4,020,000,000	$ 4,033,000,000
Recorded liabilities related to inventory purchase commitments	169,000,000	172,000,000
Compensation Expense					304,000,000	12,000,000	853,000,000						257,000,000		863,000,000
Funding commitments								265,000,000	263,000,000
Cumulative investment in entity										578,000,000
Ownership percentage in entity (in percentage)										35.00%
Investments for the period, equity method										64,000,000
Company's share of VCE's losses (in percentage)										36.80%	36.80%
Cumulative lossess - VCE										53,000,000	42,000,000	475,000,000
VCE-Carrying Value										103,000,000
Initial investment in Insieme													100,000,000
Conditional additional investment in Insieme														35,000,000
Ownership percentage of Insieme													83.00%
Warranty Period for Products, low range (in days)			90 days
Warranty Period For Products, high range (in years)				5 years
Brazilian authority claim of import tax evasion by importer, tax portion	394,000,000
Brazilian authority claim of import tax evasion by importer, interest portion	1,200,000,000
Brazilian authority claim of import tax evasion by importer, penalties portion	1,800,000,000
Loss Contingency, Damages Awarded, Value																70,000,000	35,000
Loss Contingency, Damages Award Vacated, Value																$ (70,000,000)