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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-11-031105
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20110524

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SANMINA-SCI CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000897723
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS [3672]
		IRS NUMBER:				770228183
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2700 N FIRST ST
		CITY:			SAN JOSE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			95134
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4089643500

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2700 N FIRST ST
		CITY:			SAN JOSE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			95134

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SANMINA CORP/DE
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930729

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SANMINA HOLDINGS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930223
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">May&nbsp;24, 2011</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Stephen Krikorian</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Accounting Branch Chief</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Sanmina-SCI Corporation</font></b></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Fiscal Year ended October&nbsp;2,   2010</font></b></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Krikorian:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We are responding to comments received from the staff (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Staff</i></b>&#148;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission in its letter dated May&nbsp;10, 2011 with respect to the reports referenced above (the &#147;<b><i style="font-weight:bold;">Comments</i></b>&#148;). The numbering of the paragraphs below corresponds to the numbering of the Comments, which for the Staff&#146;s convenience, have been incorporated into this response letter.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">General</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1<i>.</i></font><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">We note your response to prior comment 1. With respect to your responses to comments 6 and 7 of our letter dated March&nbsp;3, 2011, we are unable to concur with your position that disclosure of the performance targets for your named executive officers under the 2010 Corporate Bonus Plan reasonably threatens competitive harm. It is unclear what significant conclusions about your plans and priorities a competitor could draw from the historical performance targets that it could not also draw from your actual results and or its participation in the market place. It is also unclear how competitors could derive sufficient information about your annual operating plan from your historical performance targets to solicit away your customers. Finally, it is unclear why historical performance targets would be more useful to competitors attempting to recruit your employees than the company&#146;s actual historical performance or the executive compensation information, such as salary or bonuses paid in fiscal 2010, that has already been publicly disclosed. Accordingly, please amend Part&nbsp;III of your Form&nbsp;10-K to disclose the performance targets for your 2010 Corporate Bonus Plan, or refile in unredacted form your responses to comments 6 and 7 of our letter dated March&nbsp;3, 2011. Also, please confirm that in future filings you will disclose the performance targets underlying your bonus plan to the extent that they are material and not otherwise excludable pursuant to Instruction 4 to Item 402(b)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">With respect to your response to comment 8 of our letter dated March&nbsp;3, 2011, the</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">  <i>circumstances surrounding the compensation committee&#146;s decision to exercise its</i>  <i>discretion to adjust the compensation awarded to a named executive officer appears to be required disclosure under Item 402(b)(2)(vi)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K. Accordingly, please amend Part&nbsp;III of your Form&nbsp;10-K to provide this disclosure or refile in unredacted for</i>  <i>your response to comment 8 of our letter dated March&nbsp;3, 2011.</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As requested by the Staff, we are providing our response to previous Staff Comment Nos. 6 and 7 contained in our letter to the Staff dated February&nbsp;8, 2011 herein in unredacted form. For ease of reference, we also include below the text of these comments, which were originally contained in the Staff&#146;s letter dated January&nbsp;26, 2011.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 63.0pt;text-indent:-27.0pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#147;6.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">We note that&#160; you have not disclosed your non-GAAP operating margin target for your 2010 Corporate Bonus Plan, although you did disclose the 2009 target in your proxy statement filed on December&nbsp;18, 2009. Please disclose the 2010 target in your response letter or provide us with your analysis as to why disclosure of the target is not required. Also, we note that you have not disclosed your 2010 inventory turns or free cash flow targets, although information on your inventory turns and cash flow from your operations and investment activities is disclosed in your Form&nbsp;10-K. Please disclose these 2010 performance targets in your response letter or provide your explanation as to why disclosure is not required. Please note that claims that disclosure of performance targets would cause competitive harm generally are not persuasive when actual performance has been disclosed.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 63.35pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Also, please note that to the extent you are relying on Instruction 4 to Item 402(b)&nbsp;to omit</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">  <i>performance target disclosure, you must provide meaningful disclosure of the level of difficulty of attaining such targets. General statements regarding the level of difficulty, or ease, associated with achieving performance goals either corporately or individually are not sufficient. In this regard, the following disclosure does not appear to sufficiently address the disclosure requirement: &#147;The Committee believed that achievement of the targeted level of performance under the 2010 incentive plan would be moderately difficult to difficult based upon industry-wide and Sanmina-SCI&#146;s internal forecasts.&#148; In future filings please provide detailed support for the level of difficulty you assert in connection with your targets, such as a discussion of the correlation between historical and future achievement of the relevant performance metric.</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The minimum target for fiscal 2010 non-GAAP operating margin was 2.60%. This number was inadvertently omitted from the Compensation Discussion and Analysis. The Company will include the non-GAAP operating margin target in future filings.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The two performance measures referred to by the Staff, fiscal 2010 inventory turns and cash flow from operations, were metrics that either added to or subtracted from corporate performance factor yielded by the Company&#146;s actual fiscal 2010 revenue and non-GAAP operating margin. The table below sets forth the effect of these measures and the other disclosed metrics on the fiscal 2010 corporate performance factor.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">$6.3   billion</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Return   on invested capital</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least 13%, but no less than 11%</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">18%</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Add   15%</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least 7.5x, but no less than 7.0x</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">7.3x</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">No   adjustment</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cash   provided of at least $150 million, but no less than $100 million</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cash   used of $72 million</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Subtract   10%</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">145%</font></b></p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><i><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Disclosure Regarding Difficulty of Achieving Performance Targets</font></u></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note the Staff&#146;s comment regarding the need for meaningful disclosure concerning the difficulty of achievement of the performance targets. The Company&#146;s 2010 proxy statement, which disclosed adoption of the 2010 Corporate Bonus Plan, included specific language regarding the difficulty of such achievement, focusing on the extent to which previous year plans had paid below target. Similarly, information concerning the perceived difficulty of achieving the targets contained in the 2011 Corporate Bonus Plan was included on page&nbsp;34 of this year&#146;s proxy statement. For next year&#146;s proxy statement, we will ensure that such language is repeated in the discussion of payments under the 2011 Corporate Bonus Plan.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-24.0pt;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">7.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">We note that the maximum corporate performance factor under your 2010 Plan appears to have been 180%. Please tell us how you calculated this percentage. For example, clarify whether any of the five pre-established corporate targets were weighed differently in calculating the corporate performance factor. Also, tell us how the actual corporate performance factor of 145% was calculated. Clarify the extent to which each of the preestablished corporate performance targets were met or exceeded.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Below is a table showing calculation of the 180% maximum corporate performance factor under the Company&#146;s 2010 bonus plan.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">More   than $6.2 billion</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">130%   (when combined with non-GAAP operating margin target for maximum performance)</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least 3.51%</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">See   above</font></p>    </td>   </tr>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Operating   margin greater than or equal to 3.3%</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Return   on invested capital</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least 13%</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least 7.5x</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">At   least $150 million</font></p>    </td>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">180%</font></b></p>    </td>   </tr>  </table>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Please see our response to Question 6 above for a description of how the 145% corporate performance factor was calculated and the various weightings for the performance metrics involved, as well as the extent to which actual results exceeded the performance metrics.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As mentioned on page&nbsp;33 of the proxy statement, the Company reserved the right to adjust named executive officer bonuses based upon individual and divisional performance. With the exception of Mr.&nbsp;Young, whose bonus was adjusted downwards by $56,000, no adjustments were made to the bonuses paid to the other named executive officers for individual performance and such bonuses were paid strictly according to the formula shown on page&nbsp;33.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In the case of Mr.&nbsp;Young, there were no detailed quantitative or qualitative factors used by the Compensation Committee in making the downward adjustment in Mr.&nbsp;Young&#146;s bonus. Nor did Mr.&nbsp;Young, in the Compensation Committee&#146;s view, fail to perform effectively as the Company&#146;s chief sales and marketing officer. Rather, the Compensation Committee made a discretionary adjustment reflecting its belief that Mr.&nbsp;Young and his organization did not meet expectations for growth in sales and new customers for the year.&#148;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As requested by the Staff, we confirm that in future filings we will disclose the performance targets underlying our bonus plan to the extent that they are material and not otherwise excludable pursuant to Instruction 4 to Item 402(b)&nbsp;of Regulation S-K.</font></p>
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