EXHIBIT 24.1

                         POWER OF ATTORNEY OF DIRECTORS

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

        Each of the undersigned directors of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Randy Furr and Rick
R. Ackel as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, for him or her and in
his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute a
Registration Statement or Registration Statements on Form S-8 or other
appropriate form, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to up
to 15,250,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value, of the Company, and an
indeterminate number of plan interests issuable under the Sanmina-SCI
Corporation 401(k) Plan, as amended, and any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statements, and to file such
Registration Statements and any and all amendments thereto, with exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or desirable
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as
he or she might or could do in person, thereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of March
2002.


                                                    

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                Jure Sola                                            Mario M. Rosati


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              A. Eugene Sapp, Jr.                                    Joseph M. Schell


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                John C. Bolger                                  Bernard V. Vonderschmitt


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                Neil R. Bonke                                       Wayne Shortridge


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                Randy W. Furr                                       Jackie M. Ward