Apple joined the Blender development fund and contributed a metal backend to the offline Cycles renderer in Blender 3.1 https://code.blender.org/2021/11/cycles-

Apple joined the Blender development fund and contributed a metal backend to the offline Cycles renderer in Blender 3.1 https://code.blender.org/2021/11/cycles-x-project-update/ https://code.blender.org/2021/11/cycles-x-project-update/ https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-development-fund/ https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-developmen... And in Blender 3.5 a Metal background was added to the viewport https://code.blender.org/2023/01/introducing-the-blender-metal-viewport/ https://code.blender.org/2023/01/introducing-the-blender-met...