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Product Sales | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 03, 2015
Segment Reconciliation [Abstract] |
Product Sales [Text Block] | Product Sales
For the year ended |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
DRAM |  | $ | 10,339 |  |  | $ | 11,164 |  |  | $ | 4,361 |
Non-Volatile Memory |  | 5,274 |  |  | 4,468 |  |  | 3,589 |
Other |  | 579 |  |  | 726 |  |  | 1,123 |
|  | $ | 16,192 |  |  | $ | 16,358 |  |  | $ | 9,073 |
Non-Volatile Memory includes NAND Flash and 3D XPoint memory. Through 2015, substantially all of our Non-Volatile Memory sales were from NAND Flash products. Sales of NOR Flash products are included in Other. Information regarding our MCP products, which combine both NAND Flash and DRAM components, is reported within Non-Volatile Memory.

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