A semiconductor device includes a circuit board formed of an insulator substrate
and having conductor patterns on both surfaces thereof, a semiconductor chip bonded
to the circuit board with one of the conductor patterns therebetween, and a radiator
base bonded to the circuit board with a solder layer through the other of the conductor
patterns therebetween for conducting heat generated in the semiconductor chip to
an outside device. The radiator base is formed of a material having anisotropic
thermal conductivity so that the radiator base has thermal conductivity in a direction
perpendicular to a bonding plane between the radiator base and the circuit board
higher than that along the bonding plane. The radiator base has thermal expansion
coefficient along a bonding plane with the circuit board different from that along
the bonding plate of the insulator substrate by a predetermined value.