Atomic Clocks & Moore's Law: Is There a Connection?

[roineust]

Attached are two diagrams. One describing Moore's law, the other describing the development of atomic clocks since the 50's.

Is there a connection between these diagrams, not in the strict graph-math equivalence sense, but in the sense, that conclusions regarding atomic clocks' future accuracy advancements, can be derived, in a similar way, to that of Moore's law?

 

[f95toli]

I don't really think there is a relation, at least not beyond the rather obvious observation that technology has advanced over the past few decades.
You do not need a fast computer to build an accurate atomic clock; computers are obviously used for control, data acquisition etc, but you don't need a computer (or digital logic) to build an accurate clock.

The development of better lasers has been much more important than the development of computers (but again. the two are obviously related but the same thing could be said for the development of better bikes).