Intel's earnings boosted technology stocks in Asia on Friday but market benchmarks were mixed amid patchy figures on the U.S. economy.

EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday that they had fined Intel a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) for using its grip on the microchip market to thwart rivals illegally.

Chip-making giant Intel reported a 90-percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday as revenues dropped by 23 percent over the same quarter a year earlier.

Intel Corp. whacked more than $1 billion from its fourth-quarter revenue forecast and ratcheted down its profit expectations because a clampdown on spending is reducing demand for its chips.