HomeKit already supports Thread based devices that work with the HAP protocol in iOS 14.
Matter works on top of Thread or Wifi (with some BLE for discovery…) and if I see this correctly, the examples they provide are based on Matter with Thread. While Matter devices will appear in HomeKit, they said in the session that you can control Matter directly without HomeKit, too. You have to install a profile for the Matter support, as it's a "Developer Preview", which kinda means it's even more beta than the beta ;-) Also everything "Matter" is called "CHIP" in the current build, because that's the "old" name.
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