A grid of transistors marked with T's and X's as described in the text. https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/109/689/054/260/075/958/original/300ece09d2c90e5b.png
A closeup of the 8086's microcode ROM shows transistors (T) and empty sites (X). This region has 13 real transistors but would be counted as 18 transistor sites. The complete microcode ROM has 7694 empty sites that bump up the published count.