Yep pretty much all simulation is currently being done with Phil Goodman's Neocortical Simulator (Matlab/C) and NEURON (C + recently a python api) on Blue Gene super computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project . So the mystery of who will use this chip continues.
Perhaps the military? Small embedded neural nets could be highly useful for visual recognition algos on missiles and drones [ the majority of military planes now being built are unmanned ]. However I believe the military is now trying to move all drone tech code to a common operating system\language to increase code portability between platforms.
