Any idea on what happened with Apple becoming a sponsor? Apple Silicon compatibility is achieved but I don't see Apple in the sponsor list: https://fund.blender.org
However they’re still contributing to porting it to Metal and improving that support, among other things. You can see various things in progress on the Blender dev pages
[1] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2022-11-30-render-cycles-meeti...