Intel (NSDQ: INTC), the largest manufacturer of computer chip, said Wednesday that the distribution of low-cost educational designed for laptops, developing markets will soon extend to the United States and Europe .

Computer makers will start selling Intel designed Classmate PC on the market for about $ 250 to $ 350, making it the last super-laptops at low cost to go on sale in the developed world, said Lila Abraham, CEO of ‘Intel platform emerging market group. She refused to identify the PC manufacturers, saying these companies had asked Intel to keep their names quiet until they prepared to unveil the models.

The chipmaker has conducted pilot tests of these devices in the United States and Australia, “she said, but he declined to name the schools where they are being tested. She said that manufacturers in India, Mexico and Indonesia have already begun to sell Classmate notebook PCs in the retail market. To date, Intel has sold fewer than 100000 of the Classmate PC, but plans for an increase in production in 2008.

She developed a second model, the Classmate 2, and has already started working on a third, the Classmate 3, Abraham said in a conference call with journalists from Reuters. “With the second generation, there will be more choices for manufacturers going into detail,” she says.

This will give them the flexibility to build a range of laptop computers with different configurations of memory, screen sizes and different devices, including cameras, “she said.

The Classmate key rivals in the super-laptop low market prices are $ 399 Eee PC from Taiwan’s Asustek Computer and XO laptop, which costs $ 188 to make and is sold by the non-profit association One Laptop Per Child Foundation. Asustek is the largest manufacturer of computer motherboards.

Inventor Mary Lou Jepsen, a scientist who has developed the XO Laptop, resigned from the foundation at the end of last year and has started his own company Pixel Qi with the aim of building a laptop $ 75 in 2010. (Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Duncan Martell in San Francisco, editing by Carol Bishopric)