Chips most commonly refers to: * Chips or

french fries French fries (North American English), chips (British English), finger chips ( Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are '' batonnet'' or ''allumette''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium and France. Th ...

, long chunks of potato that have been deep fried or baked * Chips, 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) Chips is a nickname which may refer to: * Henry Channon (1897–1958), British MP and diarist * Chips Hardy (born 1950), English screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and creative director * Chips Keswick (born 1940), British businessman * Chips Kies ...

, various people *

Chips Mackinolty Chips Mackinolty (born 12 March 1954) is an Australian artist. He was involved in the campaigns against the war in Vietnam by producing posters, and was a key figure in the radical poster movement. Early life Chips Mackinolty was born on 12 Mar ...

(born 1954), Australian artist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Chips'' (album), from the eponymous Swedish group * Chips (band), a Swedish pop band *

The Chips The Chips were a short-lived New York City doo-wop vocal group consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson (lead vocal), Nathaniel Epps (baritone), Paul Fulton (bass), Sammy Strain and Shedrick Lincoln (tenors). The group's first recording is th ...

, a short-lived New York City doo-wop vocal group * Chips, Irish male/female vocal group, including

Linda Martin 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?". She is also known within Irelan ...

Television

* '' CHiPs'', a television series about the California Highway Patrol * "

CHiPs (Space Ghost Coast to Coast) ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' is an animated late-night talk show. It is hosted by washed-up superhero Space Ghost and co-stars his archenemies Zorak and Moltar, who he has imprisoned and enslaved. Zorak is bandleader and Moltar is director an ...

", 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 actua ...

'', a British comic published from 1969 to 1990 * Mr. Chips, an English schoolteacher in James Hilton's novella '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' and its film adaptations

Businesses

Chips (coffee shop) Chips is a historic coffee shop in Los Angeles, California. It is an example of the Googie Architecture style of Modern Architecture Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based ...

, a historic coffee shop in Los Angeles, California *

Chips (company) The Chips Group (formerly Taffel Chips) was a company based in Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland, producing potato chips (i.e. crisps, in British English) and other savoury delights since the establishment of Chips Ab Suomi in 1969 as th ...

, 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 microsprocessor companies * Clearing House Interbank Payments System, a U.S. payment settlement scheme

Computing and technology

* Chips, monolithic

integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...

s without their packaging, the bare semiconductor dice *

Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System (CHIPS) is the definition of a computer network that consists of a mixture of common serial data protocols such as RS-232 and RS-485, or can be even PC keyboard interface communication. CHIPS may also consist ...

(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 had ...

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

Other uses

* Children's Health Insurance Program *

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.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 wh ...

, 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 T ...

, a passenger train that operates over the Blue Mountains between Lithgow and Sydney * The CHIPS Act, a bill included in

William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 The William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 () is a United States federal law which specifies the budget, expenditures and policies of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal year 2021. Analogo ...

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, stumps, roots, and wood waste. Woodchips may be used as a biomass solid fuel and are raw material ...