As integrated circuits are developed, the size of each transistor gets smaller, so more can be packed into single chips but they are still doing the same job as the individual transistors that were used to build the very first solid state computers.
Under his rule, the Vandals would take over North Africa and form a kingdom of their own. Roman weakness helped him accomplish this. In 429, the Western Roman Empire was ruled by a child named Valentinian III, who depended on his mother, Galla Placidia, for advice.
But, because correct timing was the prerequisite of success, in a clockless age it would have been a fluke had the three columns engaged simultaneously (312). The Vandals were a Germanic tribe who are first mentioned in Roman history in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder (77 CE). The Roman historian Tacitus also mentions them in his Germania (c. 98 CE), though he also refers to them as the Lugi.