System and techniques for spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) in neuromorphic hardware are described herein. A first spike may be received, at a first neuron at a first time, from a second neuron. The first neuron may produce a second spike at a second time after the first time. At a third time after the second time, the first neuron may receive a third spike from the second neuron. Here, the third spike is a replay of the first spike with a defined time offset. The first neuron may then perform long term potentiation (LTP) for the first spike using the third spike.