Headquartered in Visalia, California, USA, House's original product was a custom modified version of HP's Turbocooler heatsink design from servers and workstations.
House experimented with silver based solutions, and success with improved formulas led to a change in business focus, to thermal interface compounds.
Other developments include ceramic (non-conductive) compounds as well as thermal interface epoxy adhesives for use where permanence is desirable, or where no other heatsink attachment method is available.
In a 2009 BenchmarkReviews.com review which compared 80 thermal pastes, AS-5 tied for first overall, with an A+ "enthusiast grade";[2] it cooled a test system 12% better than the last-place finisher.
The 2009 BenchmarkReviews.com 80-product review gave Matrix (Labeled TIM Consultants T-C Grease 0098) an A, "enthusiast grade";[2] it cooled a test system 11% better than the last-place finisher.