Socket 754 was one of the first sockets developed by AMD to support their new 64-bit microprocessor family known as AMD64, this time for the consumer market.

It differs from Socket 939 in several areas: Although AMD promoted Socket 754 as a budget platform on the desktop and encouraged mid- and high-end users to use newer platforms, Socket 754 remained for some time as AMD's high-end solution for mobile applications (e.g. the HP zv6000 series).

However in 2006, Socket S1 was released and superseded Socket 754 in the mobile CPU segment, with support for dual-core CPUs and DDR2 SDRAM.

The 2 holes for fastening the heatsink to the motherboard are placed at a distance of 90 mm.

The first processors using Socket 754 came on the market in the second half of 2003.