Chips most commonly refers to: * Chips or

french fries French fries, or simply fries, also known as chips, and finger chips (Indian English), are '' batonnet'' or '' julienne''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and f ...

, long chunks of potato that have been deep fried or baked *

Chip (snack) A chip (American English and Australian English) or crisp (British English and Hiberno-English, Irish English) is a snack food in the form of a crisp, flat or slightly bowl shaped, bite-sized unit. Some chips can be made into Dish (food), dishes ...

, or crisps, a snack food in the form of thin crispy slices **

Potato chip Potato chips (North American English and Australian English; often just chip) or crisp (British English and Hiberno-English) are thin slices of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep frying, deep fried, baking, baked, ...

s, thin crispy slices of deep-fried or baked potatoes Chips may also refer to:

People

* Chips (nickname), various people *

Chips Rafferty John William Pilbean Goffage MBE (26 March 190927 May 1971), known professionally as Chips Rafferty, was an Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the late 1930s until he died i ...

, 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) Chips was a Swedish country group formed in Sweden in 1979. History Chips finished 4th in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1980 with the song " Mycke' mycke' mer", with Lars Westman, Lisa Magnusson, Mats Rådberg and Monica Silverstrand (back th ...

, a Swedish pop band * The Chips, a short-lived New York City doo-wop vocal group *

Chips (Irish band) Linda Martin (born 27 March 1952) is an Irish singer and television presenter. She is best known as the winner of the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest during which she represented Ireland with the song " Why Me?", the first of a record three c ...

, active 1969 to 1980s * "Chips", a song by Azealia Banks off the mixtape '' Fantasea''

Television

* ''

CHiPs ''CHiPs'' is an American crime drama television series created by Rick Rosner and originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to May 1, 1983. After the final first-run telecast on NBC in May 1983, the series went into reruns on Sundays fr ...

'', 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 ''Whizzer and Chips'' was a British comics magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic '' Buster''. As with most comics of the time, ''Whizzer and Chips'' was dated one week ahead of the day it actu ...

'', 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 ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton (novelist), James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two featu ...

'' 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 Chips and Technologies, Inc. (C&T), was an early fabless semiconductor company founded in Milpitas, California, in December 1984 by Gordon A. Campbell and Dado Banatao. Its first product, announced September 1985, was a four chip Enhanced Graph ...

(often stylized as CHIPS on their products), one of the first fabless microprocessor companies *

Clearing House Interbank Payments System The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private Clearing house (finance), clearing house for large-value wire transfer transactions. As of late 2024, it settles approximately 500,000 payments totaling US$1.8trillion ...

, an American payment settlement scheme

Computing and technology

* Chips, monolithic

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

s 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) CHIPS (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer, also Explorer 82 or UNEX-2) was a NASA Explorer program satellite. It was launched on 12 January 2003 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II with the larger satellite ICESat, and h ...

, Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Satellite, a satellite launched in 2003 *

Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State The Privacy Sandbox is an initiative led by Google to create web standards for websites to access user information without compromising privacy. Its core purpose is to facilitate online advertising by sharing a subset of user private information ...

(CHIPS), an experimental browser cookie standard

Other uses

Children's Health Insurance Program The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to ...

Chips (dog) Chips (1940–1946) was a trained sentry dog for United States Army, and reputedly the most decorated war dog from World War II. Chips was a German Shepherd-Collie-Malamute mix owned by Edward J. Wren of Pleasantville, New York. He was bred by C. ...

, an American wardog who served in World War II *

Chips, Manchester Chips is a residential apartment building, alongside the Ashton Canal, in New Islington, Manchester, England. Historically part of Ancoats, the building is part of an urban renewal project, New Islington Millennium Village in east Manchester whi ...

, an apartment building *

The Chips (train) The Chips is the legacy name for the passenger train that operates over the Blue Mountains between Lithgow and Sydney. As of 2023, the name is unofficial and over the years, has not formally been used to refer to the Blue Mountains Line serv ...

, a passenger train that operates over the Blue Mountains between Lithgow and Sydney *

CHIPS and Science Act The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022. The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and ...

, IC chip legislation in the United States enacted in 2022 *

Woodchips Woodchips are small- to medium-sized pieces of wood formed by cutting or chipping larger pieces of wood such as trees, branches, logging residues, Tree stump, stumps, roots, and wood waste. Woodchips may be used as a biomass solid fuel and are r ...