The present invention intends to prevent the communication distance from
becoming shorter with a reduction in size of a coil antenna to the chip
size and with a consequent decrease of an induced voltage. According to
the present invention there is provided a semiconductor chip having a
coil antenna and a circuit surface and adapted to transmit and receive
signals by radio to and from an external device. The semiconductor chip
has a configuration for increasing an electromagnetic coupling
coefficient between the coil antenna and the external device. According
to a concrete example thereof, a magnetic material is disposed, the coil
antenna is formed by a stacked structure comprising plural conductor
layers and insulating layers superimposed one on another, or the coil
antenna is disposed outside an external form of a circuit of the
semiconductor chip.