A trench IGBT is disclosed which meets the specifications for turn-on
losses and radiation noise. It includes a p-type base layer divided into
different p-type base regions by trenches. N-type source regions are
formed in only some of the p-type base regions. There is a gate runner in
the active region of the trench IGBT. Contact holes formed in the
vicinities of the terminal ends of the trenches and on both sides of the
gate runner electrically connect some of the p-type base regions that do
not include source regions to an emitter electrode. The number N1 of
p-type base regions that are connected electrically to the emitter
electrode and the number N2 of p-type base regions that are insulated
from the emitter electrode are related with each other by the expression
25.ltoreq.{N1/(N1+N2)}.times.100.ltoreq.75.