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Equity Method Investments - 2 (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Dec. 03, 2015	Dec. 04, 2014
Tera Probe [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Related party purchases from Tera Probe	$ 21	$ 25

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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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Purchases during the period (excluding transactions that are eliminated in consolidated or combined financial statements) with related party.

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