Related Parties and Strategic Investments (Details Textual) (USD $)				12 Months Ended
	Dec. 30, 2012	Jan. 01, 2012	Feb. 28, 2010 SIM Business [Member]	Dec. 30, 2012 Flash Ventures [Member]	Jan. 01, 2012 Flash Ventures [Member]	Jan. 02, 2011 Flash Ventures [Member]	Dec. 30, 2012 Flash Ventures [Member] SanDisk Corp [Member]
Related Parties and Strategic Investments
Percentage of ownership with Related party							49.90%
The Company purchased NAND flash memory wafers from Flash Ventures and made prepayments, investments and loans to Flash Ventures				$ 2,710,000,000	$ 2,950,000,000	$ 2,000,000,000
Accounts payable balances due to related party	214,806,000	276,275,000		214,500,000	275,800,000
Sale of assets of SIM business			17,800,000
Gain on Sale of assets of SIM business			13,200,000
Undistributed earnings of equity method investments				$ (600,000)	$ 4,200,000