While 512 MB of memory is not extravagant by today’s standards, it’s workable.
One remarkable aspect of the board is the Raspberry-designed RP3A0 system-in-package, which includes the four CPUs and 512 MB of RAM all on the same chip.
Last week we saw the announcement of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is basically an improved quad-core version of the Pi Zero - more comparable in speed to the Pi 3B+, but in the smaller Zero form factor.