Provided is a technology capable of improving the productivity of a p channel MISFET using a high dielectric-constant film as a gate insulating film and a conductive film containing metal as a gate electrode. In this technology, a threshold voltage of the p channel MISFET can be decreased even if a work function value of the conductive film containing metal at the time of contacting a silicon oxide film is away from a value near a valence band of silicon. A p channel MISFET formed on a semiconductor substrate has a gate insulating film formed of a hafnium oxide film, a metal oxide film formed of an aluminum oxide film on this gate insulating film, and a gate electrode formed of a tantalum nitride film on this metal oxide film. The metal oxide film has a function to shift a work function value of the gate electrode.