i have hundreds and hundreds of chips in my windshield.. noticed it for the first time over the summer and thought it was a sprinkling of water over the windshield, turns out they were all tiny tiny chips in the windshield, even to my hand i couldnt feel them, but running a needle over the surface of the windshield, it caught in every single one of them, also have 2 gravel sized chips in the windshield, thankfully neither of them have expanded because i filled them with epoxy as soon as i noticed them.
i havent had the windshield replaced, but i know it was replaced at some point because it has the blue stripe across the top, which was not a factory option