Embracing Thunderbolt 3 Will Make Next-Gen USB4 Twice as Fast
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In fact, you can plug a USB-C cable into your Thunderbolt 3 port, but you’ll only get USB speeds. Once it happens, you’ll know almost exactly what you’re getting when you use that USB-C port or cable. I say "almost exactly" here because, unfortunately, you still need those qualifiers: Intel will continue to develop Thunderbolt 3 independent of USB4, and there’s no guarantee the two protocols will progress in lockstep from here.
As said here by Brian Barrett