Semiconductor History Museum of Japan

16.October.2024 NEW: The new article "Early 2010s: Full-scale use of FinFETs has started" is open in Process Technology exhibition room.
27.August.2024: The new article "1985: The Rise of Wintel" is open in Industry Trends exhibition room.
22.July.2024: The new article "2022: Sample shipments of 200mm SiC epi wafers begin (Resonac)" is open in Process Technology exhibition room.
23.June.2024: The new article "2023: Development of a wider-temperature-range 100 Gbps Electro-absorption Modulator integrated Laser (EML) for data centers (Mitsubishi Electric)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
24.May.2024: The new article "2021: Development of 10W-class high-power blue semiconductor laser diode (Nichia)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
24.October.2023: The new article "2022: Launch of SPAD direct ToF method depth sensor for automotive LiDAR (Sony)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
24.October.2023: The new article "2022: Development of terahertz device using resonant tunnel diode (RTD) (Canon)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
25.October.2022: The new article "2010s: Commercialization of industrial-use unmanned helicopters called as drones" is open in application products exhibition room.
28.July.2022: Equipment and Materials (1980s-2000s) was opened.
25.July.2022: June 2016 information has been added to Oral History.
30.June.2022: Equipment and Materials (1950s-70s) was opened.
1.May.2022: The new article "Late 1970s: Commercialization of Microcomputer peripheral LSIs such as CRTC (Hitachi)" is open in Integrated Circuit exhibition room.
1.May.2022: The new article "1980s: Expansion of color graphics display market" is open in Integrated Circuit exhibition room.
12.April.2022: The new article "2004 : Development of InGaP/InGaAs HEMT MMIC for 76GHz automotive radar (Fujitsu)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
22.March.2022: The new article "2020 : Release of 1/2-inch SXGA InGaAs-Si- stacked visible and short-wavelength infrared light image sensors (Sony)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
22.December.2021: The new article "2007 : World's first OLED TV launched (Sony)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
14.December.2021: The new article "2017 : Development of a pixel/DRAM/logic 3-layer stacked CMOS Image Sensor (Sony)" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
16.November.2021: The new article "Development of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs) for large screen displays of outdoor use" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
25.August.2021: The new article "Commercialization of the world's first Organic LED flat panel display in 1997" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
26.March.2020: The new article "Improvement of photodiode for image sensor" is open in discreate devices exhibition room.
18.September.2019: No.17 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
20.August.2019: No.16 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
17.July.2019: No.15 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
19.June.2019: Renewal of SHMJ.
New detail PDF pages have been added to "Integrated Circuits", "DiscreteSemiconductors", "Process Technology" and "Packaging Technology". In the future, "Equipment ＆ Material" and others will be added.
12.June.2019: No.14 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
15.May.2019: No.13 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
10.April.2019: No.12 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
13.March.2019: No.11 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
13.February.2019: No.10 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
16.January.2019: No.9 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
12.December.2018: No.7 and 8 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
7.November.2018: No.5 and 6 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
10.October.2018: No.3 and 4 materials of Exhibit VI are open in Makimoto Library. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
12.September.2018: Exhibit VI is now open in Makimoto Library. No.1 and 2 materials are included this time. Please click following address. http://www.shmj.or.jp/makimoto/en/6th_lib.html
1.August.2018: "Mr.Shimura's Essays with Historic Photos" has been updated with the addition of Part 3 which includes 21 new articles with photos.
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4.July.2018: Makimoto Library Exhibit V is now open. Please click right banner.
6.June.2018: Makimoto Library Exhibit IV is now open. Please click right banner.
7.May.2018: Makimoto Library Exhibit III is now open. Please click right banner.
25.April.2018: Makimoto Library Exhibit II is now open. Please click right banner.
20.March.2018: Makimoto Library, the collection of Dr. Makimoto’s essays, papers, and pressentation materials, is now open.
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29.November.2017: "Mr. Shimura's Essays with Historic Photos" has been updated with the addition of Part 2 which includes 44 new photos and articles.
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16.November.2016: Special exhibition of "Mr. Shimura's Essays with Historic Photos" is now up.
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22.July.2013: The search function in the site was added.
1.June.2013: Special exhibition of "Japan Semiconductor Innovation 50" is now up as of June 1.
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24.Oct.2011: Renewal of SHMJ

Notice of the Opening of Semiconductor Museum

It is my great pleasure to inform you the opening of “English Version” of Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. The SHMJ, only in Japanese version, has been opened since November 2010. The special project has been organized for translating the contents into English since the last year, and now, most of them have been completed.
We can now be accessed from all over the world to provide useful information about the historical events in Japan.
I wish you will enjoy visiting the SHMJ.

Sincerely yours,
Tsugio Makimoto, Ph. D
Director of SHMJ

Tsugio Makimoto, Ph. D
Director of SHMJ

Welcome to the
“Semiconductor History Museum of Japan”!

Since the invention of the transistor at Bell Laboratories in the United States in 1947, technological innovations have been made continuously in the field of semiconductors, which has become the foundation for building advanced information society in recent years.

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, Japan played a major role, as well as the United States.

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