A rotating electric machine is comprised of a stator having a stator core and a stator coil wound around the stator core, the stator core having at least two tip portions, and a rotor having a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets provided in the rotor core, the rotor being rotatable relative to the stator. A direction of flux of the permanent magnets is perpendicular to a direction of an array of the stator, and the tip portions of the stator core sandwich the rotor and are disposed to be nearer to the rotor than the stator coil.