Today, IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Lab revealed the Synaptic Supercomputer made up of 16 TrueNorth Chips (16 Million Neurons, 4 Billion Synapses) that our group (myself included) has been working on over the last several months (and in some sense, years).
Here are a number of links to the announcements and news: Wall-Street Journal [Subscription Required] modha.org [Scaleup Synaptic Supercomputer Blog] LLNL Perspective [Brian Van Essen]
Simultaneously, several of my colleagues have published a preprint of their work mapping Convolution Neural Networks onto TrueNorth: Convolution Networks for Fast, Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing