• Trends in the Semiconductor Industry
  • Application Products
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Discrete SemiconductorDevice etc
  • Process Technology
  • Packaging
  • Equipment & Material
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.2022NEW
Equipment and Materials (1980s-2000s) was opened.
25.July.2022NEW
June 2016 information has been added to Oral History.
30.June.2022NEW
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”!

I would like to express my hearty greetings to the visitors of SHMJ.
Six decades have passed since the transistor was invented at Bell Laboratories in 1947. In the meantime, technical innovation has continued incessantly in this industry, and it has become the foundation up on which today’s highly-networked information society is constructed.

In the early stages of the semiconductor industry, Japan played a major role together with the US.

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