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Geographic and Significant Customer Information - Summary of Customer Concentrations as Percentage of Revenue and Accounts Receivable (Detail) - Customer Concentration Risk [Member]	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Apr. 01, 2016	Apr. 03, 2015	Apr. 01, 2016	Apr. 03, 2015	Oct. 02, 2015
Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	66.00%	59.00%	64.00%	58.00%
Customer A [Member] | Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	17.00%	5.00%	16.00%	6.00%
Customer A [Member] | Accounts Receivable [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage			13.00%		14.00%
Customer B [Member] | Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	12.00%	13.00%	12.00%	13.00%
Customer B [Member] | Accounts Receivable [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage			16.00%		10.00%
Customer C [Member] | Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	11.00%	19.00%	12.00%	21.00%
Customer C [Member] | Accounts Receivable [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage			14.00%		22.00%
Customer D [Member] | Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	10.00%	2.00%	10.00%	1.00%

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 275
-SubTopic 10
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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