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.
Vandal, member of a Germanic people who maintained a kingdom in North Africa from ad 429 to 534 and who sacked Rome in 455. Their name has remained a synonym for willful desecration or destruction. Fleeing westward from the Huns at the beginning of the 5th century, the Vandals invaded and devastated parts of Gaul before settling in Spain in 409.