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Borrowings (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 29, 2023	Oct. 30, 2022	Oct. 31, 2021	Apr. 18, 2022	Apr. 14, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021	Mar. 31, 2021	Jan. 19, 2021	May 21, 2020	May 08, 2020	Apr. 23, 2020	May 07, 2019	Apr. 05, 2019	Feb. 28, 2019	Nov. 05, 2018	Nov. 04, 2018
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 40,815	$ 41,218
Long-Term Debt, Current Maturities	1,563	403
Finance Lease, Liability, Current	45	37
Current portion of long-term debt	1,608	440
Long-Term Debt, Gross, Excluding Current Maturities	39,252	40,815
Finance Lease, Liability, Noncurrent	4	22
Unaccreted discount/premium and unamortized debt issuance costs	(1,635)	(1,762)
Long-term debt	$ 37,621	39,075
Redemption price, Percentage	101.00%
Debt repayment	$ 403	$ 2,361	$ 11,495
April 2029 Senior Notes Issued in Apr22
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.00%	4.00%
Effective interest rate	4.17%	4.17%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 750	$ 750
Total principal amount issued					$ 750
April 2032 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.15%	4.15%
Effective interest rate	4.30%	4.30%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,200	$ 1,200
Total principal amount issued					$ 1,200
May 2037 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.926%	4.926%
Effective interest rate	5.33%	5.33%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,500	$ 2,500
Total principal amount issued				$ 2,500
Debt exchanged to issue April 2022 senior notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding				$ 2,502
April 2022 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	4,450	$ 4,450
April 2022 Redemptions
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Payment for Debt Extinguishment or Debt Prepayment Cost	85
Write-off of unamortized discount and issuance costs	15
April 2022 Exchange Offer
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Payment for Debt Extinguishment or Debt Prepayment Cost	$ 47
November 2035 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.137%	3.137%
Effective interest rate	4.23%	4.23%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 3,250	$ 3,250
Total principal amount issued						$ 3,250
November 2036 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.187%	3.187%
Effective interest rate	4.79%	4.79%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,750	$ 2,750
Total principal amount issued						2,750
Debt exchanged to issue September 2021 senior notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding						$ 6,000
September 2021 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 6,000	6,000
Payment for Debt Extinguishment or Debt Prepayment Cost		$ 762
April 2033 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.419%	3.419%
Effective interest rate	4.66%	4.66%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,250	$ 2,250
Total principal amount issued							$ 2,250
April 2034 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.469%	3.469%
Effective interest rate	4.63%	4.63%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 3,250	$ 3,250
Total principal amount issued							3,250
Debt exchanged to issue March 2021 senior notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding							$ 5,500
March 2021 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 5,500	5,500
Payment for Debt Extinguishment or Debt Prepayment Cost		$ 581
February 2028 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	1.95%	1.95%
Effective interest rate	2.10%	2.10%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 750	$ 750
February 2031 Seniors Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	2.45%	2.45%
Effective interest rate	2.56%	2.56%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,750	$ 2,750
February 2033 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	2.60%	2.60%
Effective interest rate	2.70%	2.70%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,750	$ 1,750
February 2041 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.50%	3.50%
Effective interest rate	3.60%	3.60%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 3,000	$ 3,000
February 2051 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.75%	3.75%
Effective interest rate	3.84%	3.84%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,750	$ 1,750
January 2021 Senior Notes Tranche
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 10,000	10,000
Total principal amount issued								$ 10,000
Repurchase using January 2021 senior notes proceeds
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt repayment			3,830
Repayments and repurchases using January 2021 senior notes proceeds
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Payment for Debt Extinguishment or Debt Prepayment Cost		151
Write-off of unamortized discount and issuance costs		$ 47
September 2026 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.459%	3.459%
Effective interest rate	4.19%	4.19%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 752	$ 752
Total principal amount issued									$ 1,695
September 2028 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.11%	4.11%
Effective interest rate	5.02%	5.02%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,118	$ 1,118
Total principal amount issued									2,222
Debt exchanged to issue June 2020 senior notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding									$ 3,742
June 2020 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,870	$ 1,870
November 2023 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	2.25%	2.25%
Effective interest rate	2.40%	2.40%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 105	$ 105
November 2025 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.15%	3.15%
Effective interest rate	3.29%	3.29%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 900	$ 900
November 2030 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.15%	4.15%
Effective interest rate	4.27%	4.27%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,856	$ 1,856
November 2032 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.30%	4.30%
Effective interest rate	4.39%	4.39%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,000	$ 2,000
May 2020 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 4,861	$ 4,861
Total principal amount issued										$ 8,000
April 2025 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate		4.70%
Debt repayment		$ 1,020
April 2030 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	5.00%	5.00%
Effective interest rate	5.18%	5.18%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 606	$ 606
November 2019 Term Loans
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt repayment			$ 5,888
October 2024 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.625%	3.625%
Effective interest rate	3.98%	3.98%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 622	$ 622
April 2026 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate		4.25%
Debt repayment		$ 944
April 2029 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.75%	4.75%
Effective interest rate	4.95%	4.95%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 1,655	$ 1,655
April 2019 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	2,277	2,277
Total principal amount issued													$ 11,000
January 2021 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate			2.20%
Debt repayment		$ 282
January 2023 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate		2.65%
Effective interest rate		2.78%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 0	$ 260
January 2024 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.625%	3.625%
Effective interest rate	3.74%	3.74%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 829	$ 829
January 2025 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.125%	3.125%
Effective interest rate	3.23%	3.23%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 495	$ 495
January 2027 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.875%	3.875%
Effective interest rate	4.02%	4.02%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 2,922	$ 2,922
January 2028 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.50%	3.50%
Effective interest rate	3.60%	3.60%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 777	$ 777
2017 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	5,023	$ 5,283
Total principal amount issued																$ 17,550
August 2023 Senior Notes | CA Technologies, Inc.
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate		4.50%
Effective interest rate		4.10%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 0	$ 143
March 2027 Senior Notes | CA Technologies, Inc.
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.70%	4.70%
Effective interest rate	5.15%	5.15%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 215	$ 215
Assumed CA Senior Notes | CA Technologies, Inc.
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 215	$ 358
Long-term debt assumed in a business combination															$ 2,250
August 2024 Senior Notes | Broadcom Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	3.50%	3.50%
Effective interest rate	3.55%	3.55%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 7	$ 7
August 2034 Senior Notes | Broadcom Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fixed interest rate	4.50%	4.50%
Effective interest rate	4.55%	4.55%
Total principal amount outstanding	$ 6	$ 6
Other Senior Notes | Broadcom Corporation
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	13	13
Revolver Borrowings
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	0	0
Commercial Paper Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount outstanding	0	$ 0
Commercial paper, Maximum borrowing capacity														$ 2,000
April 2020 Senior Notes
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Total principal amount issued											$ 4,500
January 2021 Credit Agreement | Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity								7,500
January 2021 Credit Agreement | Foreign Line of Credit
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity								$ 500
May 2019 Credit Agreement | Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity												$ 5,000
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 2
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Fair value of debt	$ 33,181

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