Chips Explained

Chips most commonly refers to:

• Chips or french fries, long chunks of potato that have been deep fried or baked
• Chip (snack), or crisps, a snack food in the form of thin crispy slices
  • Potato chips, thin crispy slices of deep-fried or baked potatoes

Chips may also refer to:

People

• Chips (nickname), various people
• Chips Rafferty, stage name of Australian actor John William Pilbean Goffage (1909–1971)
• Chips Mackinolty (born 1954), Australian artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Chips (album), from the eponymous Swedish group
• Chips (band), a Swedish pop band
• The Chips, a short-lived New York City doo-wop vocal group
• Chips (Irish band), active 1969 to 1980s
• "Chips", a song by Azealia Banks off the mixtape Fantasea

Television

• CHiPs, a television series about the California Highway Patrol
• "CHiPs (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)", an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• CHiPs (film), a 2017 film version of the series
• Chips (literary magazine), the award-winning literary and art magazine of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
• Chips, a separate pull-out section of Whizzer and Chips, a British comic published from 1969 to 1990
• Chips, a character in the animated series Adventure Time episode "Chips & Ice Cream"
• Mr. Chips, an English schoolteacher in James Hilton's novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips and its film adaptations

Businesses

• Chips (coffee shop), a historic coffee shop in Los Angeles, California
• Chips (company), based in Åland, Finland, producer of potato chips and other food products
• Chips and Technologies (often stylized as CHIPS on their products), one of the first fabless microprocessor companies
• Clearing House Interbank Payments System, a U.S. payment settlement scheme

Computing and technology

• Chips, monolithic integrated circuits without their packaging, the bare semiconductor dice
• Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System (CHIPS), defines a computer network's interface and protocol systems used in serial and wireless communications
• CHIPS (satellite), Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Satellite, a satellite launched in 2003
• Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS), an experimental browser cookie standard

Other uses

• Children's Health Insurance Program
• Chips (dog), an American wardog who served in World War II
• Chips, Manchester, an apartment building
• The Chips (train), a passenger train that operates over the Blue Mountains between Lithgow and Sydney
• CHIPS and Science Act, IC chip legislation in the United States enacted in 2022
• Woodchips

See also

• Chip (disambiguation)