I was heavily into neuromorphic hardware ~5 years ago when the hype seemed to be at its peak. We funneled a load of time and money into it. It was working okay

I was heavily into neuromorphic hardware ~5 years ago when the hype seemed to be at its peak. We funneled a load of time and money into it. It was working okay for what we were doing and everybody was generally happy. Then the NVidia Tesla C2050 came out and CUDA reached a somewhat stable release. The neuromorphic plane has crashed into the proverbial mountain. EDIT: Maybe I should elaborate - we accomplished the same task using the Tesla card, but it was about 100x faster and each card was $2500 and usable for other tasks. The general rule of thumb became: design a neuromorphic system, wait for the next Tesla chip, then simulate it in software.