= Architecture =
Fun fact: Most sources claim that the 8086 has about 29,000 transistors. But actually, it has only 19,618 transistors. [https://www.righto.com/2023/01/counting-transistors-in-8086-processor.html Source]
To put it into perspective, 64KB of DRAM contains 524,288 transistors, as 1 bit of DRAM needs 1 transistor.