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.
The monarchs of France ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of the Franks in 486 to 1870. The first dynasty of kings was the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled until 751, followed by the second dynasty, the Carolingians, until 987 (with some interruptions). The third dynasty, the Capetians, the male-line descendants of Hugh Capet, ruled France continuously from 987 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848.