sadly no mention of work on an universal version. below is the actual response:
"Thank you for writing back. At this time, we have no information regarding plans to provide a version of the Nik Collection that will run natively on the Apple M1 systems. Since the current version of the Nik apps is written for use on Intel machines, and the new Photoshop is written to run on the ARM-based M1 systems, converting the program code from an Intel-based code to an ARM-based code is not an easy task.
We will be happy to pass along your interest in this capability to our development team for their consideration. A suggestion on your behalf will be automatically created and sent to the developers once this ticket is closed."