Intel is planning on making its Classmate PC available throughout Europe and the United States despite the fact that its initial purpose was to focus on people in developing countries. The company took the decision after consumers outside education started to show interest in the Classmate PC.

Company executives said Intel will offer a different version of the tablet PC for the European and U.S. market, and will go even further and introduce other laptops of the same nature afterwards. This will be the latest super-low cost laptop headed for retail sale in the developed world, said Lila Ibrahim, general manager of Intel’s emerging market platform’s group, Reuters reports.

It seems like more producers tend to show up on the market today with low-cost computers that appeal to a wider audience that high-end computers. We are referring to what Intel called “nettops,” a new generation of chip laptops that will be priced somewhere in the $250 - $300 range.

Intel said about the Classmate PC that “it is a revolutionary new device targeted at providing one computing solution per student in emerging markets,” but now has high expectations of it on a broader scale.

The Classmate PC will not use the Atom microprocessor, which was specifically designed for low power and low-cost PCs and are oriented towards educational markets, said Agnes Kwan, an Intel spokeswoman.

Intel will have to significantly boost the 2008 production if it plans to bring Classmate PC to Europe and the U.S. According to Ibrahim, the company has already finished a second version of the model, and is already working on a third, Reuters reports.

Classmate PC has other “mates” to rival with on the market, such as the XO Laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The “divorce” between Intel and XO developers has been widely covered by the media just months ago, after OLPC’s Negroponte accused Intel of anti-competition.