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Product Sales | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 01, 2016
Segment Reconciliation [Abstract] |
Product Sales | Product Sales
For the year ended |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
DRAM |  | $ | 7,207 |  |  | $ | 10,339 |  |  | $ | 11,164 |
Non-Volatile Memory |  |  |  |  |  |
Trade |  | 4,138 |  |  | 4,811 |  |  | 3,993 |
Non-Trade |  | 501 |  |  | 463 |  |  | 475 |
Other |  | 553 |  |  | 579 |  |  | 726 |
|  | $ | 12,399 |  |  | $ | 16,192 |  |  | $ | 16,358 |
Trade Non-Volatile Memory includes NAND Flash and 3D XPoint memory. Non-Trade Non-Volatile Memory primarily consists of Non-Volatile Memory products manufactured and sold to Intel through IMFT at long-term negotiated prices approximating cost. Sales of MCP products, which combine both NAND Flash and DRAM components, are reported within Trade Non-Volatile Memory. Sales of NOR Flash products are included in Other.

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