A hearing aid comprising a data memory includes a plurality of
semiconductor memory cells. The semiconductor memory cell has a gate
insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, on a well region
provided in the semiconductor substrate, or on a semiconductor film
deposited on an insulator; a single gate electrode formed on the gate
insulating film; two memory functional units formed on both sidewalls of
the single gate electrode; a channel formation region formed under the
single gate electrode; and first diffusion regions disposed on both sides
of the channel formation region. The semiconductor memory cell is
constituted so as to change an amount of currents flowing from one of the
first diffusion regions to the other first diffusion region according to
an amount of charges retained in the memory functional unit or a
polarization vector when a voltage is applied to the gate electrode.