After stating at the beginning of the year that 2016 will be the year of the MIPS hardware architectures, Imagination Technologies, a British-based technology R&D company known for promoting the MIPS family of microprocessors, has donated multiple high-performance SDNA-7130 appliances to the Debian Project. These powerful SDNA-7130 (Software Defined Network Appliance) platforms, which have been developed by Rhino Labs, a leading provider of high-performance data infrastructure solutions, data security, and networking, will be used by Debian to advance the development and maintenance of Debian GNU/Linux on MIPS CPUs.