Cubieboard is pronounced as [kju:b-bɔ:d], and it is a combination of cube variant and board, meaning a very small cute box. It represents a series of boards designed by cubieteam, including A10-Cubieboard, A20-Cubieboard, A20-Cubietruck, and the coming A80-Cubieboard.

The boards are designed and produced by cubieteam, which is a small team in Zhuhai，China. The small team are focus on providing low cost, hacker friendly, community friendly, but still high performance mini PC for people all over the world, hoping to help promote the level of computer education and simplify the prototyping software/hardware products.

Cubieboard is more and more popular all over the world, so cubieteam decided to create a company to operate cubieboard. So Cubietech Ltd. was born. The company was created by cubieteam at March 25, 2013.