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# Creating Chips

## What are Chips?

Chips act as individual deployment targets and the basic building blocks for fleets. They are comprised of a handful of required properties, but any number of custom properties can be added as simple key-value pairs.

These required properties are *name*, *description* and *platform*. Platform refers to some pre-existing public or private software platform.

## How can I create a chip?

You can create a chip by clicking the *Fleet* button in the left-side navigation panel and then clicking the *chips* tab. You will see a *"+ Chip"* button in the top right which upon being clicked will display a form asking you to define your new chip.

<figure><img src="/files/fE74i74a0ixDwDHDWVJB" alt="The Chip tab on the Fleet page shows you all the chips that you&#x27;ve created"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/DGisqK6YghI1uoPGfDAW" alt="To add a new chip, fill out the Chip Name, Description, and Platform fields. Properties are optional."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

You must specify your chip's name, description, and intended platform. You can also optionally define additional properties using the *Add Property* button which could be used to filter and organize information. When you're finished configuring your chip, the *Add Chip* button will save your configurations.