It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to decrease the
on-state
resistance of a selection transistor of a memory cell without increasing the whole
area of a memory cell array and accelerate and stabilize the reading operation
of data stored in the memory cell. Therefore, a plurality of variable resistive
elements capable of storing information in accordance with a change of electrical
resistances is included, one ends of the variable resistive elements are connected
each other, and an electrode of a selection element constituted by a MOSFET or
diode element for selecting the variable resistive elements in common is connected
with one end of each of the variable resistive elements to constitute a memory cell.