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Concentration of Risk - Schedule of Significant Customers Accounting for at Least 10% of Net Sales (Details) - Net sales revenue | 12 Months Ended
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Jan. 28, 2018 | Jan. 29, 2017 | Jan. 31, 2016
Geographic Information And Concentration Of Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Minimum concentration risk threshold |  | 10.00% |  |
Arrow Electronics (and affiliates) |  |  |  |
Geographic Information And Concentration Of Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Concentration risk, percentage |  | 11.00% | 10.00% | 9.00%
Trend-Tek Technology Ltd (and affiliates) |  |  |  |
Geographic Information And Concentration Of Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Concentration risk, percentage |  | 10.00% | 10.00% | 7.00%
Samsung Electronics (and affiliates) |  |  |  |
Geographic Information And Concentration Of Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Concentration risk, percentage |  | 8.00% | 7.00% | 7.00%
Premier Technical Sales Kore, Inc. (and affiliates) |  |  |  |
Geographic Information And Concentration Of Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Concentration risk, percentage | [1] | 6.00% | 4.00% | 3.00%
[1] | Premier is a distributor with a concentration of sales to Samsung. The above percentages represent the Company's estimate of the sales activity related to Samsung that is passing through this distributor.

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